Infant Birth Weight and Nutrition in Industrializing Montreal

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Title
Infant Birth Weight and Nutrition in Industrializing Montreal
Abstract
The birth weights examined by the authors in this study were recorded at the University Lying-In Hospital in Montreal between 1851 and 1905. The Lying-in Hospital was founded in 1843 by members of McGill University's Medical Faculty and by English-speaking Montreal female philanthropists. The hospital drew its patients almost entirely from among the poor in English-speaking Montreal. The authors found that the mean weight of children born in the hospital after 1873 began to decline.
Publication
The American Historical Review
Date
April 1984
Volume
Vol. 89
Issue
no. 2
Pages
324-345
Language
en
Citation
Ward, W. Peter, and Patricia C. Ward. “Infant Birth Weight and Nutrition in Industrializing Montreal.” The American Historical Review Vol. 89, no. 2 (April 1984): 324–345.
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