The Early History of the Infant Welfare Movement.

Abstract

This little book is more than a history; it is an appreciation of the pioneers in the infant welfare movement who rescued childhood from industrial exploitation, from neglect due to ignorance or indifference, and from the devastating attacks of preventable disease. As might be expected, it deals particularly with the history of child welfare in England; but it does not fail to note progress in other countries and how such progress influenced the British movement. The author seems particularly impressed with the Strauss milk charities in New York at the beginning of the last decade of the nineteenth century. He devotes a considerable part of his chapter on early infant welfare work in America to these milk depots. The early recognition of the importance of breast feeding is emphasized, a principle lately returned to, somewhat belatedly, after an era of overemphasis on artificial feeding. The controversy over pasteurization versus inspection,

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