Health: Rooming in vs. nurseries

... said historian Elizabeth Temkin. In the late 1940s, however, rooming-in became more common because of World War II nursing shortages and nursery epidemics of infectious diarrhea, impetigo and respiratory illness. As rooming-in became more popular, ...

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