Hearing before the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine, United States Senate, sixty-sixth Congress, second session, on S3259U.S. Government Printing Office, 1920 |
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... attention to the subject specifically stressed in its organic act , namely infant mortality . Necessarily the study of maternal mor- tality is involved . None of these studies , it should be stated are medical studies . They consider ...
... attention to the subject specifically stressed in its organic act , namely infant mortality . Necessarily the study of maternal mor- tality is involved . None of these studies , it should be stated are medical studies . They consider ...
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... attention . It is evident , however , from what I have said that such is not the case . That large numbers of women have a great deal of trouble , that every year unnecessarily large numbers of women and children are lost , and that we ...
... attention . It is evident , however , from what I have said that such is not the case . That large numbers of women have a great deal of trouble , that every year unnecessarily large numbers of women and children are lost , and that we ...
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... attention to this broad fact , that the 23,000 mothers who died in childbirth last year , largely from preventable causes , and the 250,000 children comprised a total casualty loss that is as large as our total casualty list during the ...
... attention to this broad fact , that the 23,000 mothers who died in childbirth last year , largely from preventable causes , and the 250,000 children comprised a total casualty loss that is as large as our total casualty list during the ...
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... the first to avail themselves of its provisions and those which need it most will be the last . The very object it seeks to reach will not be touched in the places where attention is most needed . If PROTECTION OF MATERNITY AND INFANCY .
... the first to avail themselves of its provisions and those which need it most will be the last . The very object it seeks to reach will not be touched in the places where attention is most needed . If PROTECTION OF MATERNITY AND INFANCY .
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... attention is most needed . If a backward State can not be aroused to its obvious duty by appeal and by the example of others , is it likely to be influenced to start this work by the offer of a small monetary reward from the National ...
... attention is most needed . If a backward State can not be aroused to its obvious duty by appeal and by the example of others , is it likely to be influenced to start this work by the offer of a small monetary reward from the National ...
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119 West Fortieth American Child Hygiene ANDERSON appropriation approval authorized birth board of health board of maternal bureaus of child cent CHAIRMAN Child Hygiene Association child welfare childbirth Children's Bureau committee confinement Congress cooperation DEAR SIR department of health disease doctor Editor Good Housekeeping expenditure favor Federal board fiscal glad Governor Henry Street Settlement hospital hygiene of maternity infant hygiene infant mortality infant welfare Johns Hopkins Hospital KELLEY KEYES Labor large numbers legislation legislature letter maternal death maternity and infancy ment midwives Miss DINES mortality rate mothers and babies mothers and children National obstetrics organizations physician pregnancy prenatal preventable protection of maternity Public Health Service public protection question Representative TOWNER RUDE Schick test Secretary Senate bill 3259 Senator RANSDELL Senator Sheppard Sheppard bill Sheppard-Towner STATEMENT OF MISS statistics syphilis tion W. F. BIGELOW West Fortieth Street Whitridge Williams woman women York City
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Page 5 - No portion of said fund nor the interest thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under any pretense whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation, or repair of any building or buildings.
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Page 4 - Within sixty days after the close of each fiscal year the Secretary of Agriculture shall determine what part, if any, of the sums theretofore deducted for...
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Page 59 - The act directed the bureau to investigate and report upon "all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people...
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