Open AccessBREAST FEEDING IN THE REDUCTION OF INFANT MORTALITY
Author(s) -
J. P. Sedgwick,
E. C. Fleischner
Publication year - 1921
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.11.2.153
Subject(s) - casual , infant mortality , breast feeding , brother , medicine , demography , family medicine , environmental health , pediatrics , political science , sociology , law , population
These authors do not absolve their brother physicians from responsibility in the high infant mortality through bottle feeding and note that medical schools spend hours teaching artificial feeding against a casual attitude in discussing maternal nursing. The story is told of the Minneapolis demonstration which helped reduce infant mortality there from 81 to 65.