Transactions, Volume 3American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality, 1913 - Child welfare |
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Affil asepsis attended Baltimore Baltimore Baltimore birth registration Board of Health born Boston boys breast feeding cent certified milk Charles Chicago child Cleveland clinic Committee cooking deaths Department of Health disease Dispensary district nurse doctor East Euclid Euclid Ave eugenics fact girls give given heredity home economics home-making hospital human hygiene important infant mortality Infant Welfare infection institutions instruction interest labor large number living marriage maternity ment mental midwifery midwives milk stations milk supply Miss months mothers November 15 nursery obstetrical organization orthogenesis parents pasteurization patients Paul St pediatrists Philadelphia physi physical physicians poor population possible practice prenatal present Prevention of Infant problem proper question records Roland Park social Society sterilized stillbirths supervision syphilis teaching temperature tion Total number tuberculosis week Whitridge Williams women workers York City young
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Page 56 - It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.
Page 50 - the study of agencies under social control that may improve or impair the racial qualities of future generations, either physically or mentally.
Page 45 - Bureau shall investigate and report . . . upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
Page 222 - Jacobi in his inaugural address, at the meeting of the American Medical Association at Atlantic City in June...
Page 102 - Act all persons on the pension roll, and a_ll persons hereafter granted a pension, who, while in the military or naval service of the United States...
Page 50 - is the science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race; also with those that develop them to the utmost advantage.
Page 103 - But it is now settled, that the law resorts to hearsay evidence in cases of pedigree, upon the ground of the interest of the declarants in the person from whom the descent is made out, and their consequent interest in knowing the connections of the family. The rule of admission is, therefore, restricted to the declarations of deceased persons who were related by blood or marriage to the person, and, therefore, interested in the succession in question...
Page 54 - Although the suppression of the best blood of a country is a new disease in modern Europe, it is an old story in the history of nations and has been the prelude to the ruin of states and the decline and fall of empires.
Page 45 - ... investigate and report upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people, and shall especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, the birth rate, orphanage, juvenile courts, desertion, dangerous occupations, accidents, and diseases of children, employment, and legislation affecting children in the several States and Territories.
Page 179 - There is not any single thing more important to the public in the whole range of hygiene than the hygiene of the mouth.