Excerpt from Standards and Recommendations for Hospital Care of Newborn Infants: Full-Term and PrematureIn the present war emergency provision of adequate hospital care for new born infants is becoming more and more of a problem. With the increasing demand for hospitalization of maternity cases, especially in defense areas, hospital nurseries are overcrowded, with a' resulting increase in the hazards to the infants The fate of newborn infants depends largely upon the medical and nursing care they receive, and, on account of the wartime shortage of professional personnel, it is becoming increasingly difficult for many hospitals to maintain the high standards that have been developed in recent years for the care of newborn infants.To assist hospitals in modifying some of their procedures while maintaining the recognized standards, this pamphlet presents a statement of Such stand ards, representing in general the consensus of present pediatric Opinion, along with certain recommendations that may be helpful in the hospital's efforts to maintain these standards under wartime conditions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.