I. The Blighting of the Babies
[1]. The Theory and Practice of Infant Feeding, by Henry Dwight Chapin, A.M., M.D.
[2]. Registrar General’s Report, 1886, pp. 32–126.
[3]. Population Française, Levasseur, vol. ii, p. 403.
[4]. Tenement Conditions in Chicago, by Robert Hunter, pp. 154–157.
[5]. Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 144.
[6]. The Diseases of Children, by Henry Ashby, M.D., Lond., and G. A. Wright, B.A., M.B., Oxon., p. 12.
[7]. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, 1882, p. 388.
[8]. Mulhall’s Dictionary of Statistics, p. 133.
[9]. Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration. Evidence.
[10]. Idem. Evidence of Dr. Eichholz and Others.
[11]. Parliamentary Paper [Cd. 1501] containing a Memorandum by Sir William Taylor, the Director-General, Army Medical Service.
See also a letter to the London Times, February 2, 1903, by General F. Maurice.
[12]. Tenement Conditions in Chicago, p. 157.
[13]. Information received from the Commissioner of Health.
[14]. Trans. Nat. Ass’n for the Promotion of Social Science, 1882, p. 387.
[15]. The Nutrition of the Infant, by Ralph M. Vincent, M.D., p. 246.
[16]. Diseases of Children, Ashby and Wright, p. 228.
[17]. Idem., pp. 44–45.
[18]. Figures quoted from a newspaper report of an interview with Mr. Straus.
[19]. See the Article, But a Thousand a Year, in Charities, August 5, 1905; Infants’ Milk Depots and Infant Mortality, by Dr. G. F. McCleary; The Problem of the Milk Supply, by Dr. Lawson Dodd, etc.
[20]. Report Interdepartmental Committee, vol. ii, p. 442; Vincent, op. cit., pp. 268 et seq.
[21]. Report of the Health of the City of Birmingham, 1902, by Dr. Alfred Hill. Quoted by Vincent, op. cit., p. 272.
[22]. Vincent, op. cit. Also Testimony before the Interdepartmental Committee contained in the Report Evidence.
[23]. Mass and Class, by W. J. Ghent, p. 182.
[24]. From the newspaper report of an interview referred to above.
[25]. A Noviciate for Marriage, by Mrs. H. Ellis.
[26]. Twentieth Annual Report of the N. Y. Bureau of Labor Statistics, p. 61.
[27]. Charities, April 1, 1905.
[28]. See, e.g., the Fortnightly Review for 1876, the Contemporary Review for 1882, and the various Transactions of the National Society for the Promotion of Social Science.
[29]. Methods of Social Reform, by W. S. Jevons.
[30]. Report of the Proceedings of the Third International Congress for the Welfare and Protection of Children,—Speech of Mr. Hartley, B. N. Mothersole, M.A., LL.D., p. 166.
[31]. Idem.
Also the Transactions of the Nat. Soc. for the Promotion of Social Science, p. 384.
[32]. Primitive Folk, by Élie Reclus, p. 35.
[33]. See the Comparative Summary of Legislation upon this Subject in Dangerous Trades, edited by Prof. T. Oliver, pp. 53, 54.
[34]. Vide Report of the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration and the frequent discussions in the British Press.
[35]. Transactions of the National Society for the Promotion of Social Science, 1882, p. 363.
[36]. Idem., p. 382.
[37]. Statistisches Jahrbuch für das Deutsche Reich, 1904.
[38]. Diseases of Children, by Ashby and Wright, pp. 14 et seq.
[39]. See, e.g., Infants’ Milk Depots and Infant Mortality, by G. F. McCleary.
[40]. Report on Les Crèches, by Dr. Eugène Deschamps, Congrès International d’Hygiene et de Démographie à Paris, 1900.
Other works consulted include: How the Other Half Lives, by Jacob A. Riis; The Battle with the Slum, by the same author; The Diseases of Infancy and Childhood, by L. Emmet Holt, M.D., LL.D.
System of Medicine, edited by Clifford Allbutt.
Antenatal Pathology, by J. W. Ballantyne, M.D.
The Study of Children, by Francis Warner, M.D., London, F.R.C.S., F.R.C.P.
The Nervous System of the Child, by the same author.
In the preparation of the text free use has also been made of the files of the following journals: British Journal of Children’s Diseases; British Medical Journal; New York Medical Journal, Archives of Pediatrics; Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, etc.