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Excerpt from The Summer Care of Infants Mothers of small children should not work outside of their own homes. Infant mortality increases in proportion to the number of women who go out to work, even though this may result in a higher standard of comforts in the home itself. During the siege of Paris, so it is stated, even though it was a time of great famine and starve tion, and while there was a great increase in the general death rate, the mortality among infants fell 40 per cent. This was Simply because the women could not secure cow's milk for their babies, ndr were they able to work in the factories and shops, but were obliged to stay at home and nurse their babies. The same reduction of infant mortality was found during the great Lancaster cotton famine, when all the textile mills were closed. In the industrial centers of the United States, such as the mill towns of New England, where many women are employed, the mor tality among infants is almost twice as high as in Similar towns in which there are no women employed in factories. 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.
