Infant Birth Weight and Nutrition in Industrializing Montreal

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Authors/collaborators
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
Volume
Vol. 89
Issue
no. 2
Pages
324-345
Date
April 1984
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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