Diarrhea of the Newborn
- 25 December 1947
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 237 (26) , 969-976
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194712252372601
Abstract
A REVOLUTIONARY change in social custom concerning childbirth has occurred during the past decade. Local evidence of this change is afforded by the statistics from the Boston Lying-in Hospital. This hospital delivers about 20 per cent of the infants born in Boston each year. The total number of babies delivered in this institution in 1935 and in 1945 was about the same: 4530 and 4685, respectively. In 1935 there were 1015 home deliveries in the outpatient department — in 1945 there were but forty-seven home deliveries, and in 1946 there were none.The virtual disappearance of home births was not . . .Keywords
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