Author: TITMUSS Richard
Title: Birth, Poverty and Wealth: A Study of Infant Mortality
Description: London, Hamish Hamilton Medical Books 1943 118pp, tables 19x13, cloth. Cloth a bit faded and slightly marked, contents good for fragile wartime item. A short, but devastating, analysis of the data on child deaths in the UK in the years up to WWII. While mortality had fallen sharply overall, the improvement was greatest amongst the wealthy and worst amongst the poor. Indeed the absolute rate of infant mortality in Glasgow in the 1930s was barely better than the figure for Norway or Ireland 100 years before. A vital contribution to the welfare state of the post-war years.

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