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the concealment of birth in nineteenth-century Victoria.

In nineteenth century Victoria illegitimacy and death went hand in hand; Estimates vary but the death rate amongst illegitimate babies was at least three times that of legitimate children and possibly much higher. The reasons for this disparity were obvious. Single mothers often had little or no pre-natal care and many had no assistance at delivery. Poor and alone, few were able to breast feed their children for long and many had little choice but to hand them over to wet nurses who, at a time when artificial feeding was little developed, were ill equipped to keep them alive.