Nations are Built of Babies - Saving Ontario's Mothers and Children, 1900-1940

"e,Nations Are Built of Babies"e, documents a national campaign by Ontario physicians to reduce infant and maternal mortality in the early twentieth century. Armed with a secure faith in science and aided by the increasingly important position of experts in Canadian society, the medical profession tackled the "e,national tragedy"e, of infant and maternal mortality by advocating "e,scientific motherhood."e, Canadian mothers were believed to be handicapped by an ignorance that could be remedied only through expert tutoring and supervision of child-rearing duties.