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Images about Infant Mortality

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

Works from the collections

250 works

    • Books

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

    | Date: [1997], ©1997
    • Books

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

    Joint Committee on Neonatal Mortality and Morbidity. | Date: 1949
    • Books

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

    Juanita De Barros | Date: [2014]
    • Books

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

    | Date: 1993
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    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.

    Alice Dick Dumas | Date: [1917?] | Reference: 569394i
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Related topics

United Kingdom
Maternal Mortality
History, 20th Century
19th-20th centuries
England
France
History, 19th Century
Fetal Death
Infants - Health and hygiene
Infant Care

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