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Showing 1 to 2 of 2 for “"Medical Officers of Health"”.
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From the Mouths of Babes: Infant Mortality and Medicalised Motherhood in County Durham, England, 1892-1914
At the turn of the twentieth century, County Durham, a coal-mining region in England’s Northeast, experienced some of the highest infant mortality rates in the country. At the same time, medical discourse focused on improving infant health outcomes was undergoing a dramatic shift that placed …
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Designed to divide: public toilets in Cape Town, 1880-1940
… seeks to explore the frequently overlooked site of public toilets in relation to the politics of production and maintenance of social hierarchies in Cape Town between 1880 and 1940. In particular, it examines how public toilets both reflected and operationalised new understandings of demarcation …