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Gouttes de Lait and The Milbank Quarterly
Author(s) -
MARKEL HOWARD
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the milbank quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.563
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1468-0009
pISSN - 0887-378X
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0009.12037
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , world wide web
One of the more fascinating public health organizations of the early 20th century was the goutte de lait [from the French for “a drop of milk”]. Better known to Americans as “milk stations” or “milk depots,” they began in France in the early 1890s before traveling to Great Britain and the United States.1,2 In a way, both the Milbank Memorial Fund and The Milbank Quarterly also began with a drop of milk, albeit of the condensed variety.