Author : Florence Brown Sherbon
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780331829112
Book Description
Excerpt from Maternity and Infant Care: In Two Rural Counties in Wisconsin The survey made in Wisconsin, like that in Kansas,1 covers two main topics: The conditions affecting the health of the childbearing mother - the general living conditions of the family, the work done by the' mother, and the care she received during pregnancy and at the time of confinement; and the care - especially the feeding - and survival of the babies. Throughout these rural surveys, the chief aim has been to give a picture of the district studied, rather than to indicate any connection between certain conditions and the infant mortality rate. The information upon which the report is based was secured by the bureau's agents through personal interviews with mothers (or, in cases where for some reason the mothers could not be seen, with their near relatives) who had borne children within the two years preceding the survey, and who, when those children were born, were living in the territory covered. As the first step in finding families where there had been births, ' the names of the parents were copied from the birth certificates of this territory for the designated period. Secondly, a canvass was made in each district to find additional un registered births. In nearly all cases the information was given by the mother herself. The mothers interviewed were appreciative of the Object of the inquiry and answered the many personal questions with generous frankness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.