This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... iv infantile mortality by may tennant infantile mortality Nearly fifty years ago a close relationship was established between infantile mortality and the industrial employment of mothers. Nearly fifty' years ago it was shown that the system which dealt so swiftly with the infant, dealt as cruelly, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... iv infantile mortality by may tennant infantile mortality Nearly fifty years ago a close relationship was established between infantile mortality and the industrial employment of mothers. Nearly fifty' years ago it was shown that the system which dealt so swiftly with the infant, dealt as cruelly, though more slowly, with the child, and dealt perhaps most hardly of all with the mother. Year by year this buried, forgotten evidence is re-inforced; but though its lessons are retaught, they seem never to be learnt. Facts and warnings abound; but in the obscurity of the past the facts do not illuminate, and the warnings have no terrors. My purpose is to rescue from the past its array of facts and its store of warnings that, added to the facts and warnings of to-day, they may satisfy our capacity for inquiry and demonstrate our readiness for action. It is true that the Inter-Departmental Committee on Physical Deterioration considered additional action to be necessary "in order to arrive at some conclusion " as to the connection between infantile mortality and the employment of mothers. The Committee admit that "the connection between infant mortality and bad or insufficient feeding... is no doubt established" yet they seem to have missed the connection between bad and insufficient feeding and the employment of mothers. I do not propose to examine the many issues raised by the industrial employment of mothers--unemployment, sweating, general influence upon wages, loss of national health, the destruction of home life with its consequences for husband and children. They are all factors which strengthen our plea for action; they are, none of them, things we can afford to ignore; but my task is already sufficient. I have promised to give proof of...
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