Child Mortality -- history

Fighting for life

by Baker, S. Josephine, (Sara Josephine)

fromNew York Review Books classics

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"New York's lower east side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called the neighborhood "the suicide ward" and referred to one particular tenement--in an official Health Department report, no less--a…

Fighting for life

by Baker, S. Josephine, (Sara Josephine)

fromNew York Review Books classics

0 Type: Book

"New York's Lower East Side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called the neighborhood "the suicide ward" and referred to one particular tenement--in an official Health Department report, no less--a…

Fighting for life

by Baker, S. Josephine, (Sara Josephine)

fromNew York Review Books classics

0 Type: Book

"New York's lower east side was said to be the most densely populated square mile on the face of the earth in the 1890s. City health inspectors called the neighborhood "the suicide ward" and referred to one particular tenement--in an official Health Department report, no less--a…

A global history of child death: mortality, burial, and parental attitudes

by Catalano, Amy J.

fromFrau Minne und die Liebenden

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Drawing from primary research studies in archaeology, historical analysis, literature, and art this interdisciplinary look at the history of child funerary practices and other vehicles of parental mourning is the only book of its kind. The purpose of this work is to investigate …