Word: fairfielders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general impression," said Dr. Fairfield, "recorded for what it is worth, is that these young girls take the ordeal very well. . . . The case records showed not a single reference to unusual anxiety, depression or nervous instability during pregnancy, labor or the puerperium [period of confinement...
Doctors have long believed that pregnancy and confinement in adolescent girls may stunt their growth, cripple their pelvic organs, even affect their sanity. Several years ago Dr. Letitia Fairfield of London, a noted surgeon and sister of famed Novelist Rebecca West, set out to see how the facts fitted this belief. She visited London charity hospitals, examined 74 mothers between the ages...
Last week in the Lancet Dr. Fairfield wrote her findings. So startling were they that she felt obliged to say she was no advocate of early motherhood but was "merely stating the facts.'' Observations...