Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inclusion disease (it has no familiar name) is hard to distinguish from other sniffles and fevers, but may cause babies to be born with virtually no skull or brain cortex, reports Boston's Dr. Thomas H. Weller, a Nobel prizewinner for his work on the polio virus. Some infant victims appear almost normal at birth, but then become microcephalic ("pinheads") because their skulls fail to grow...
...Sweden, tied with 153 deaths per 10,000 births. Next come Norway, Finland, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It was Ireland that nudged the U.S. out of the top ten last year, by moving up from 13th place. To some slight extent, the U.S. infant-death rate reflects modern medicine's ability to maintain pregnancies and deliver babies in cases that, years ago, would have ended in spontaneous abortions ("miscarriages") or stillbirths, and would not have counted in the statistics...
More babies today are strong enough to be born alive, but not to survive. But for most of U.S. infant mortality there is no such comforting explanation. The unpleasant statistics, said Mrs. Katherine B. Oettinger, the Children's Bureau chief, are largely the result of lack of medical care for women during pregnancy, especially among the Negro, Puerto Rican and Mexican populations in the big cities...
...fact is that "Infant Care" [Aug. 9] has carried pictures of Negro babies since its 1945 edition, so that the pictures in the new edition are in no way an innovation. Our records show that only two Southern Congressmen canceled their allotments...
During the first month that the new "Infant Care" was offered for sale by the Government Printing Office, some 61,760 copies of the new edition were sold. A total of 169,615 copies of "Infant Care" were distributed to Members of Congress during July-at their request. This set an all-time high in the number of copies requested by Congressmen during any one month...