Care of Mother and Child: A Guide During the First Five Years

Brisbane: Thomas Gilbert Hope, Acting Government Printer, 1939.
First Edition.

24cm x 15.5cm. xi, 144 pages, 2 plates, 1 folding table, 1 map, black and white illustrations in the text. Illustrated wrappers.

The Queensland government’s official guide to mothercraft, infant feeding, and early childhood. Designed as a handbook for mothers, with space for recording a child’s growth over the first two years and from two to five (this copy unmarked). The first edition under the title ‘Care of Mother and Child’, issued under the direction of Ned Hanlon as Secretary for Health and Home Affairs and replacing the earlier government advice book ‘The Queensland Mother’s Book’. Issued in the year Queensland’s infant welfare service became the Maternal and Child Welfare Department, when the state was served by some 26 baby clinics and 78 sub-centres, shown on a map at rear. This edition unrecorded in Trove.

Soiling to wrappers. Chip to tail fore-edge corner of wrappers upper panel. Minor foxing and edge wear to text block. One leaf with old brittle dog-ear. Good Condition.

AU$150