1. The Clinic Way with Babies’, SMH, 8 February 1934, RSWMB, Press Cuttings, 11/2, Sydney.
2. D. Ewbank and S. Preston, ‘Personal Health Behaviour and the Decline in Infant and Child Mortality: The United States, 1900–1930’, in Caldwell et al. (eds), What We Know About the Health Transition, vol. l,pp. 116–49.
3. J.M. Winter, ‘Infant Mortality, Maternal Mortality, and Public Health in Britain in the 1930s’. Journal of European Economic History, vol. 8, no. 2, 1979, pp. 439–62, emphasises the secular trend towards improvement in infant survival and life expectancy.
4. On disparities by social class, see C. Webster, 'Healthy or Hungry Thirties?', History Workshop Journal, no. 13, 1982, pp. 110-29, Webster, 'Health, Welfare and Unemployment during the Depression', Past and Present, no. 109, 1985, pp. 204-30
5. also Margaret Mitchell, 'The Effects of Unemployment on the Social Condition of Women and Children in the 1930s', History Workshop Journal, no. 19, 1985, pp. 105-27.