Baby Hygiene Committee records 1909-1964 1909-1958

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Baby Hygiene Committee records 1909-1964 1909-1958

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Consists of administrative records, including constitution and bylaws, minutes (1909-1950), correspondence (1909-1955), annual and monthly reports (1910-1958), financial records (1923-1949), case histories, and membership lists. With these are newspaper clippings and printed materials pertaining to the organization’s activities and scope of interests, particularly child and infant health care and welfare, related health and education of mothers, and public health. Includes records of Community Chest of San Francisco, of which the Baby Hygiene Committee was a member from 1922 to 1943; Children’s Committee of Associated Charities (1919-1922); Certified Milk Fund (1910-1912); Mother’s Milk Bank; and Association of American University Women (1949-1964), San Francisco branch.

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Children's Certified Milk Fund (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Association of American University Women. San Francisco branch. Baby Hygiene Committee

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History In May of 1909, a group of concerned women formed the Certified Milk Fund Committee of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae in order Francisco's poor." Aided by local dairies, the committee successfully reduced infant mortality through their city-wide drive for uncontaminated milk. In addition to supplying milk, the Milk Fund Committee offered instruction in the care and feeding of foster babies. They expanded their progr...

Mothers' Milk Bank, Inc. (San Francisco, Calif.)

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Mothers' Milk Bank was established in 1947 by the Baby Hygiene Committee of the American Association of University Women (AAUW), San Francisco branch, to provide milk from nursing mothers to premature and sick infants, to supply milk for scientific research, and to serve as a demonstration center for medical and lay groups. Although run by members of AAUW, the Mothers' Milk Bank was incorporated as a separate organization, and began service in June 1948. From the description of Mothe...

Community Chest of San Francisco.

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Children's Committee of Associated Charities.

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American Association of University Women. San Francisco branch.

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