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[hevh541]

does anyone know what year national baby week was launched

[crossie fan]

1923

[hevh541]

thanks tried googling it could not get any where

[Chopswick]

Hi hevh541, I found a Channel 4 website giving the date as 1917. It was under channel4.com/learning/main/netnote

[teacher1]

As a result the government began to intervene in daily life in new ways. In 1916 a government Department for Food was established and projects were started to feed families. Organisations like the Women's Labour League set up communal kitchens to support the feeding of families and especially of children. Many women who had been suffragettes like Sylvia Pankhurst started to campaign for health visitors, health centres, health education. The programme refers to National Baby Week launched in 1917 with its dramatic slogan: 'It is more dangerous to be a baby in Britain than it is to be a soldier'. The purpose of the campaign was, in part, to give women the education that the government thought they needed in order to be mothers.