Author: Hanna Clutterbuck-Cook

The first annual report from the Harcourt Butler Institute of Public Health in Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma, in 1926.

You can see the other reports here.

Check out the 1899 announcement for the Playfair School of Midwifery, “incorporated in the State of Illinois”:

A selection of reports from the National Council for Maternity and Child Welfare in the UK, including this one with its great cover:

No note as to whether donors also got the now traditional juice and cookie.

Happy Solstice!

Avis sur la continuation des mémoires de la Faculté de médecine, de l’Académie de chirurgie et de la Société de médecine ; par les professeurs de l’École de Santé de Paris from 1794!

Many of us have thoughts of gardening this time of year but probably not at the level of the National Vegetable Research Station in Warwick in 1965:

The English physitians guide: or a holy-guide, leading the way to know all things past, present and to come : to resolve all manner of questions, viz. of pleasure, long-life, health, youth, blessednes, wisdome and vertue … and teaching the way to change, cure and remedy all diseases … by John Heydon from 1662.