A new release, with a new preface, of Richard A. Meckel's classic history of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American campaign to reduce infant mortality.

List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Cities as Infant Abattoirs: Anglo-American Sanitary Reform and the Discovery of Urban Infant Mortality
2. Improper Aliment: American Pediatrics and Infant Feeding
3. Pure Milk for Babes: Improving the Urban Milk Supply
4. A Question of Motherhood
5. Better Mothers, Better Babies, Better Homes
6. Before the Baby Comes: Neonatal Mortality and the Promotion of Prenatal Care
7. The Steps Not Taken: The Rediscovery of Poverty and the Rejection of Maternity Insurance
8. Defeat in Victory, Victory in Defeat: The Sheppard-Towner Act
Epilogue: Progress along a Narrow and Bumpy Path: Infant and Maternal Welfare after Shappard-Towner
Appendix A: Abbreviations
Appendix B: Infant and Neonatal Mortality Rates, by Race, United States, 1915-1985
Appendix C: Maternal Mortality Rates, by Race, United States, 1915-1985
Notes
Index