Infant Welfare in Germany and Belgium--General Conclusions

“Breast is best”—Infant-feeding, infant mortality and infant welfare in Germany during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Breastfeeding is considered to be the key variable for infant health. Consequently, UNICEF and the World Health Organization promote the beginning of breastfeeding within the first hour after birth and recommend to exclusively breastfeed the infant during the first six months. The origins of these modern breastfeeding campaigns can be traced back to the beginning of the twentieth century. Where...

Summary and General Conclusions

ConClusIons and General dIsCussIon

Maternity and Infant Welfare

Cancer Organizations in France, Belgium, England, Germany and Sweden *

The necessity fot an intensified attack upon the problems arising from cancer in man becomes daily more apparent. With more accurate vital statistics, with the more refined methods of diagnosis, and we)ith the drop in the mortality rate as a result of the control of the diseases incidental to infancy and early adult life, the morbidity and mortality from cancer, which strikes at that time of li...