ASSISTANCE TO CHILDHOOD: PHILANTHROPY AND COMBAT CHILD MORTALITY IN RIO DE JANEIRO (1889-1929)
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This article aims to discuss the child care organization in Rio de Janeiro in the period of social question emergence - as was renamed the concern for the poor and the urban poverty, which in Brazil is bound to process of abolition of slavery – and the structuring and policies of Public Health. Our approach focuses on fight against child mortality. In this scenario we find doctors trying to convince mothers to breastfeed their children; doctors doing attestation of wet nurses; families looking for wet nurses through newspaper‟s advertisements; women offering themselves to be wet nurses; physicians concerned with the quality of the milk offered to families; and the increasing presence of philanthropic institutions for early childhood.
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