1st Edition

The Welfare of the Infant and Child

By Victoria E. M. Bennett Copyright 1932
322 Pages
by Routledge

322 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1932, this manual was intended mainly for the use of student’s and nurses, but it was the author’s hope that it would also prove useful to the increasing number of parents anxious to obtain a knowledge of the principles which underlie the successful feeding and care of children. Many years of practical work in England and abroad, as doctor and teacher, had given the author... Read more

Foreword.  1. Preparation for Parenthood  2. First Duties to the Infant  3. Natural Feeding  4. Food and their Values  5. Artificial Feeding  6. Weaning and After  7. The Teeth  8. Early Troubles  9. Ailments and Diseases of Childhood – I  10. Ailments and Diseases of Childhood – II  11. A Nursery Miscellany  12. Eyes and Eyesight  13. The Nervous System  14. Psychology of the Child  15. Mental Defect  16. Household Sanitation  17. Vital Statistics; Abortion; Illegitimacy  18. Maternity and Child Welfare Services.  Index.

Biography

Victoria E. M. Bennett was, at the time of original publication, Fellow of the Society of Medical Officers of Health, Lecturer and Examiner in Public Health at the Battersea Polytechnic, Examiner to the Royal Sanitary Institute, Lecturer and Examiner to the National Association for the Prevention of Infant Mortality, Carnegie House, Piccadilly, Medical Officer to Ante-natal and Infants’ Clinics at Kensington and Brixton, late Assistant School Medical Officer to the County of Durham, late Medical Superintendent of the Victoria Caste and Gosha Hospital, Madras.