What Infant and Maternal Health Services Did Middle-Class Clubwomen Provide
for Immigrant Women and Children in New York City, 1917-1920?Abstract
Middle- and upper-class women in the Women's City Club of New York established a maternity Center in 1917 to serve working-class immigrant women and children from the Lower East Side. These documents show how their motivations and organizing strategies as women reformers set an example that city officials eventually followed.
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