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" Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare. If babies were well born and well cared for, their mortality would be negligible. "
The American Journal of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children - Page 335
1919
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Parents and Their Problems: Physical care

Mary Harmon Weeks - 1914 - 354 pages
...care for their babies?' 'Not more babies, but babies that live,' is the watchword."— The Delineator. "Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare." — Newsholme. "The principle of infant life preservation is one of the most urgent and pressing questions...
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Report

West Virginia. Department of Health - 1915 - 350 pages
...line in a number of State? is spreading and meeting with very general approval. Someone has said that infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare. But how very slow are the people in realizing this fact. We have become so accustomed to hear of the...
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Report of Births, Marriages, and Deaths in Massachusetts, Volume 73

1915 - 254 pages
...efficient social units. No less an authority than Newsholme, the great English statistician, tells us that "Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare and of sanitary administration, especially under urban conditions." Mr. Lewis Meriam, formerly assistant...
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Bureau publication (United States. Children's Bureau). no. 9, 1915, Issue 9

1915 - 114 pages
...increasing the burden of rearing a family. Sir Arthur Newsholme, the great English authority, has said, "Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare and of sanitary administration, especially under urban conditions." Nationally, the United States has...
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Woman's Work in Municipalities

Mary Ritter Beard - 1915 - 364 pages
...measles. Mrs. Weston thus explains the woman's point of view about this work: "Someone has said that infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare. It may be that in our fair climate we need never reach the appalling records of our eastern cities,...
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The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, Volume 172

1915 - 982 pages
...increasing the burden of rearing a family. Sir Arthur Newsholme, the great English authority, has said, 'Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare and of sanitary administration, especially under urban conditions. ' Naturally, the United States has...
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Annual Report on the Vital Statistics of Massachusetts: Births ..., Volume 73

Massachusetts. Secretary of the Commonwealth - 1915 - 254 pages
...efficient social units. No less an authority than Newsholme, the great English statistician, tells us that "Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare and of sanitary administration, especially under urban conditions." Mr. Lewis Meriam, formerly assistant...
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American Medicine, Volume 22

1916 - 900 pages
...of consecrated hope and confidence in the future welfare of the United States. Infant Mortality. — "Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare and of sanitary administration, especially under urban conditions." This criterion of Sir Arthur Newsholme...
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Readings in Social Problems

Albert Benedict Wolfe - 1916 - 828 pages
...records of the RegistrarGeneral of births, deaths, and marriages as a basis, concludes as follows : " Infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare and of sanitary administration, especially under Europe : QO QJ. 116 4 "7 I-3C 162 06 OC io<; * 121...
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Pediatrics, Volume 28

1916 - 678 pages
...health authority lays much stress ou the closeness of this connection, and goes so far as to say that infant mortality is the most sensitive index we possess of social welfare and then adds: "If babies were still well born and well cared for, their mortality would be negligible....
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