Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940

Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940

My contribution to this journal issue is to reconstruct the darker side of the most popular of infant foods. I will give a brief overview of contamination and disease in Britain's milk supply between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the impact upon infants. Not surprisingly, young ch...

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Publicat: Anthropology of food 2003
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:aof_310 https://doi.org/10.4000/aof.310 urn:doi:10.4000/aof.310 en https://journals.openedition.org/aof/310 2003-09-01T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/9uvl https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940 Anthropology of food Anthropology of Food Webjournal info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1609-9168 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/aof Atkins, P.J. My contribution to this journal issue is to reconstruct the darker side of the most popular of infant foods. I will give a brief overview of contamination and disease in Britain's milk supply between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the impact upon infants. Not surprisingly, young children consumed a substantial proportion of market milk and, as a result, they seem to have suffered heavily from diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and summer diarrhoea. I will ask why these children were not wholly breast-fed and why relying upon artificial foods was such a risk. Also, I will give a preliminary report on my findings from data I have collected on the feeding of over three million infants, as recorded in the Medical Officer of Health Reports of 130 Local Authorities, mainly from England and Wales.
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description My contribution to this journal issue is to reconstruct the darker side of the most popular of infant foods. I will give a brief overview of contamination and disease in Britain's milk supply between 1880 and 1940, with particular reference to the impact upon infants. Not surprisingly, young children consumed a substantial proportion of market milk and, as a result, they seem to have suffered heavily from diseases such as bovine tuberculosis and summer diarrhoea. I will ask why these children were not wholly breast-fed and why relying upon artificial foods was such a risk. Also, I will give a preliminary report on my findings from data I have collected on the feeding of over three million infants, as recorded in the Medical Officer of Health Reports of 130 Local Authorities, mainly from England and Wales.
author Atkins, P.J.
spellingShingle Atkins, P.J.
Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
author_facet Atkins, P.J.
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title Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
title_short Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
title_full Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
title_fullStr Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
title_full_unstemmed Mother’s milk and infant death in Britain, circa 1900-1940
title_sort mother’s milk and infant death in britain, circa 1900-1940
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