Cultivating Health: Los Angeles Women and Public Health Reform

Contents

vii Contents Preface and Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Paid for by the Public Purse: Public Health Nursing 10 Chapter 2 Public Authority for a Private Program: Housing Reform 44 Chapter 3 Bovines, Babies, and Bacteriology: The Problems of Crafting Milk Reform 77 Chapter 4 Delivering the City’s Children: Midwives and Municipal Maternity Programs 104 Chapter 5 The Challenge of Constructing Venereal Disease Programs 132 Conclusion 156 List of Abbreviations 161 Notes 163 Index 195 ...