Child life and labour / by Margaret Alden.

Alden, Margaret (Margaret Pearse)

Date:: [1908]

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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Child life and labour / by Margaret Alden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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CHAPTER II. INFANT MORTALITY. “ The movement for the prevention of infant mortality has now become one of those great world- movements in which humanitarian workers of all nations may find a common basis for their labours.” —Daily News, Sept. 18th, 1907. THE high death rate of infants, viz., of children under twelve months of age, has, of late, attracted considerable public attention. A recent evidence of interest in the matter was the calling of a national Conference on Infantile Mortality in June, 1906, held under the patronage of the King and Queen, with Mr. John Burns as President.* Before and more markedly since the conference, many reformers have enlisted in the campaign against this national evil. Amongst them we find members of Public Health authori- ties, Boards of Guardians, philanthropic bodies, the medical profession, and influential private * In September, 1907, an International Conference on the subject was held at Brussels, under the name of the “Second International Congress of Gouttes de Lait.” It decided that the scope of the Congress should be ex- tended in future, and that the next should be called the “ International Congress for the Protection of Infant Life.”