Infant mortality a continuing social problem /

Infant mortality a continuing social problem / [electronic resource] : edited by Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.]. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2006. - xvii, 293 p. : ill.

"A volume to mark the centenary of the 1906 publication of Infant mortality : a social problem by George Newman."

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-286) and index.

Infant mortality : a social problem? / Eilidh Garrett ... [et al.] -- George Newman--a life in public health / Chris Galley -- Newman's Infant mortality as an agenda for research / Robert Woods -- Place and status as determinants of infant mortality in England c.1550-1837 / Richard Smith and Jim Oeppen -- A double penalty? : infant mortality in the Lincolnshire Fens, 1870-1900 / Sam Sneddon -- Infant mortality in Northamptonshire : a vaccination register study / Tricia James -- Urban-rural differences in infant mortality : a view from the death registers of Skye and Kilmarnock, Scotland / Eilidh Garrett -- Diarrhoea : the central issue? / Eric Hall and Michael Drake -- Infant mortality, a spatial problem : Notting Dale Special area in George Newman's London / Graham Mooney and Andrea Tanner -- Health visitors and 'enlightened motherhood' / Alice Reid -- Infant mortality and social progress in Britain, 1905-2005 / Danny Dorling -- The health of infants at the beginning of the twenty-first century / Yvonne Kelly -- Conclusion : the social dimension of infant well-being / Nicola Shelton.


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Newman, George, Sir, 1870-1948. Infant mortality.


Infants--Mortality--Great Britain.
Infants--Mortality--History--Great Britain--20th century.


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