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Prenatal Care is an educational booklet written by Mary Mills West of the US Children’s Bureau and published by the US Government Printing Office in…
LiteraturePrenatal CareUnited States. Children's BureauPrenatal care--Law and legislationPrenatal care--UtilizationJulia Clifford Lathrop was an activist and social reformer in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries and the first chief of the United…
Lathrop, Julia Clifford, 1858-1932United States. Children's BureauPrenatal care--Law and legislationMaternal and infant welfare--United StatesWomen's health services--United StatesIn November 1921, US Congress passed the National Maternity and Infancy Protection Act, also called the Sheppard-Towner Act. The Act provided federal…
LawPrenatal care--Law and legislationMaternal and infant welfare--United StatesPregnancyBirthThe book Infant Mortality: Results of a Field Study in Johnstown, PA., Based on Births in One Calendar Year (1915), written by Emma Duke, detailed…
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