The poor at birth: Birth weights and infant mortality at Philadelphia's almshouse hospital, 1848–1873
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- 31 July 1989
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Explorations in Economic History
- Vol. 26 (3) , 360-379
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-4983(89)90026-0
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