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Social History of Medicine 1997 10(2):305-330; doi:10.1093/shm/10.2.305
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Finding and Using Inter-war Maternity Records

M. KEMP*, D. GUNNELL, G. DAVEY SMITH and S. FRANKEL

*Research Officer, School of Social Science, University of Bath Bath BA2 7AY
1Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol Canynge Hall, Whiteladies Road, Bristol BS8 2PR
2Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol
3Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health Medicine, Department of Social Medicine, University ofBristol

SUMMARY This paper describes the results of a search for the obstetric records of a cohort of over 5,000 children who participated in surveys of childhood diet and growth during the late 1930s and early 1940s conducted by the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen. The surveys were conducted at sixteen centres throughout England and Scotland. Birth-weight data were found in hospitals, health authority archives and local authority record officers for approximately 10 percent of these children. The sources and methods used to find the records are described and their representativeness is evaluated. It is anticipated that this report will be of some interest to medical historians and epidemiologists conducting retrospective studies.

Keywords: maternity records; birth weight; childhood diet; anthropometric characteristics; place of delivery; Rowett Research Institute; Inter-war period


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