Summary

Multiple-page booklet 'Child Care', with cover featuring photograph of a seated toddler wearing a dress. Published by the Department of Health, Victoria. The contents of the booklet are divided into 35 sections, with an additional nine sections on 'The Pre-school Child'. Sections include 'Infant Welfare', 'Breast Feeding', 'Artificial Feeding', 'Weaning', 'Sunlight and Fresh Air', 'Old Wives Tales' and 'Children's Ailments'.

Part of a collection of child-rearing publications donated by Ann Drayton, who gave birth to a son and two daughters between 1966 and 1970 and raised them in Hamlyn Heights, near Geelong. Ann is a member of the Lawrey family. Her grandparents Elizabeth and John Lawrey built 'The Uplands' homestead in the Kinglake area in the late 1890s. 'The Uplands' was well known locally and was often used by the Kinglake community as a meeting place for special events, celebrations and sporting activities.The house was one of two on this site on the Whittlesea-Kinglake Road in Kinglake that were destroyed in the Black Saturday bushfires on 7 February 2009. The chimney from 'The Uplands' was collected as part of the Victorian Bushfires Collection and installed in the Forest Gallery at Melbourne Museum, to commemorate the history of bushfires in Victoria.

Physical Description

96-page booklet, printed in black on off-white paper, with cover printed in blue on off-white. Cover features a photograph of a seated toddler wearing a dress. Text above and below; hand-written details of owner above. Contents divided into 35 sections, with an additional nine sections on 'The Pre-school Child'. The text is illustrated with line drawings of food and teeth, and photographs including cots and babies.

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