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THE two handsome volumes before us, pub-lished under the auspices of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust, are the most recent proof of the rapidly increasing attention and importance attaching to the subject of maternity and child welfare. The need for attention to the conditions of birth and the rearing of children has impressed itself upon the public in large measure in consequence of two considerations, the steady and persistent fall in the national birth-rate and the terrible loss of the most virile part of our population in the present great world-war.
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Maternal and Child Welfare . Nature 99, 388–389 (1917). https://doi.org/10.1038/099388a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/099388a0