The infant: nutrition and management / by Eric Pritchard.

  • Pritchard, Eric, 1864-1943
Date:
1914
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    CHAPTEK XII The Teaching oe Mothercraft and its Influence on Infant Mortality It is not my intention to refer at length to the history of the movement which has resulted in the establishment of health societies, infant consulta- tions, schools for mothers, and such-like institutions, which have been actively engaged in the teaching of mothercraft in this country, further than to indicate certain milestones which have marked its progress. In the first place, it is interesting to record that one of the very first of these institutions was founded in Liverpool in the year 1893, under the title of “ The Ladies’ Sanitary Institution,” and that in the neighbouring city of Manchester a somewhat similar association—namely, “ The Ladies’ Public Health Society ”—was brought into being at an even earlier date, in the year 1887. It cannot be claimed that the work undertaken by these pioneer societies was specifically directed towards the amelioration of the lot of infants, nor for the teaching of mothercraft, but it operated indirectly in this direction, and paved the way for the particular kind of work,