Queue outside the Women's National Health Association, Photograph from Ireland's Crusade against tuberculosis, being a series of lectures delivered at the Tuberculosis Exhibition, 1907. Dublin 1908
Child mortality in Ireland, especially in Dublin, was one of the highest in Europe at the turn of the last century. Tuberculosis was one of the most lethal diseases, especially among the poor. The Women's National Health Association operated mother and baby clubs in Dublin and Belfast. Medical staff gave advice to mother on infant and childcare and, very importantly, pasteurised milk was made available to them. This drastically cut the level of infection with TB among children. Tuberculosis, however, remained a major killer among the Irish people right up until the state campaign to eradicate the disease initiated by Minister Noel Browne in the late 1940s. This three volume edition describes the situation as it was in 1908.
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Queue outside the Women's National Health Association, Photograph from Ireland's Crusade against tuberculosis, being a series of lectures delivered at the Tuberculosis Exhibition, 1907. Dublin 1908
Child mortality in Ireland, especially in Dublin, was one of the highest in Europe at the turn of the last century. Tuberculosis was one of the most lethal diseases, especially among the poor. The Women's National Health Association operated mother and baby clubs in Dublin and Belfast. Medical staff gave advice to mother on infant and childcare and, very importantly, pasteurised milk was made available to them. This drastically cut the level of infection with TB among children. Tuberculosis, however, remained a major killer among the Irish people right up until the state campaign to eradicate the disease initiated by Minister Noel Browne in the late 1940s. This three volume edition describes the situation as it was in 1908.
Chisellers: Childhood in Dublin through the centuries - About | Copyrpyright notice