1881-85

Updated: May 8, 2025

There have been more than fifty nurses trained specially for this work by Dr. Rutgers. As a nurse completes her course of training, she establishes herself in a community and her place of consultation is called a clinic. In Amsterdam, the birth rate dropped from 37.1 for the period of 1881-85 to 24.7 for 1906 and 23.3 in 1912.

Margaret Sanger - Woman and the New Race

The introduction to the "History of Woman Suffrage," published in 1881-85, edited by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage, contains the following statement: "It is often asserted that, as woman has always been man's slave, subject, inferior, dependent, under all forms of government and religion, slavery must be her normal condition; but that her condition is abnormal is proved by the marvellous change in her character, from a toy in the Turkish harem, or a drudge in the German fields, to a leader of thought in the literary circles of France, England, and America."

Helen Kendrick Johnson - Woman and the Republic — a Survey of the Woman-Suffrage Movement in the United States and a Discussion of the Claims and Arguments of Its Foremost Advocates

INFANTILE MORTALITY: Deaths in first year................. 214 99 66 per thousand living births These figures are the lowest in the whole list of death rates and infantile mortalities in the summary of births and deaths in cities in this report. Rotterdam: 1881-85 1906-10 1912 Birth rate.......... 37.4 32.0 29.0 per 1,000 of population Death rate.......... 24.2 13.4 11.3 per 1,000 of population

Margaret Sanger - Woman and the New Race