Postnatal deaths from BIRTH to 365 days after birth in a given population. Postneonatal mortality represents deaths between 28 days and 365 days after birth (as defined by National Center for Health Statistics). Neonatal mortality represents deaths from birth to 27 days after birth.
    

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Advice to expectant mothers on healthy practices during pregnancy and at the birth. Colour lithograph after O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.

Childhood mortality: interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals an industrial cityscape. Colour lithograph by Alice Dick Dumas.

Advice to mothers on healthy treatment of infants: cleanliness and warmth. Colour lithograph by A.A. Ioffa, ca. 1925.

[Bookmark asking for help for the Fench Red Cross to aleviate children dying of a lack of milk, hygiene, baby linen, medical care, air and light. There is an advert for Citiba rayon stockings on the back].

Advice to mothers on causes of child mortality. Colour lithograph by O. Gri︠u︡n, 1925.

The decline of infant and child mortality : the European experience, 1750-1990 / Carlo A. Corsini and Pier Paolo Viazzo, (editors).

Neonatal mortality and morbidity / report by a joint committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Paediatric Association.

Reproducing the British Caribbean : sex, gender, and population politics after slavery / Juanita De Barros.

The decline of infant mortality in Europe, 1800-1950 : four national case studies / edited by Carlo A. Corsini and Pier Paolo Viazzo.

The interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals and industrial cityscape. Colour process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.

Infant Mortality

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The decline of infant and child mortality : the European experience, 1750-1990 / Carlo A. Corsini and Pier Paolo Viazzo, (editors).

Neonatal mortality and morbidity / report by a joint committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the British Paediatric Association.

Reproducing the British Caribbean : sex, gender, and population politics after slavery / Juanita De Barros.

The decline of infant mortality in Europe, 1800-1950 : four national case studies / edited by Carlo A. Corsini and Pier Paolo Viazzo.

The interior of a nursery with eight babies, watched by Death who opens the window from outside and reveals and industrial cityscape. Colour process print after A. Dick Dumas, ca. 1917.