Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950

Philippa Mein Smith

Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Country
United Kingdom
Published
1 January 1997
Pages
330
ISBN
9781349143061

Mothers and King Baby: Infant Survival and Welfare in an Imperial World: Australia 1880-1950

Philippa Mein Smith

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This book is about infant mortality decline, the rise of the infant welfare movement, outcomes in terms of changing priorities in child health and what happened to mothers and babies. Infant welfare raised public awareness but did not contribute as powerfully to improved infant survival - and so longer life - as protagonists claimed. This work shows what it meant for reformers, babies and mothers when the call was ‘population is power: the nation that has the babies has the future’.

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