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Elizabeth Fee, Theodore M. Brown, Jan Lazarus and Paul Theerman

Elizabeth Fee, Jan Lazarus, and Paul Theerman are with the History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md. Theodore M. Brown is with the Departments of History and of Community and Preventive Medicine at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Elizabeth Fee, PhD, Building 38, Room 1E21, 8600 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, MD 20894 (e-mail: elizabeth_fee@nlm.nih.gov).

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THIS PHOTOGRAPH WAS published in the Fourteenth Annual Report of the Chicago Lying-In Hospital and Dispensary for 1910. Through 1910, more than 12 000 women had delivered babies at home, attended by dispensary physicians. This image was used as part of a fund-raising effort by the Women's Board of the dispensary to help build 3 small hospitals for women who could not safely be attended in their homes.

The mother and child in the photograph are identified as part of a Hungarian Jewish family with 10 children. The entire family occupied 3 crowded rooms, including the kitchen, shown here. Nine . . . [Full Text]

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