2016年8月27日 星期六

Back to sleep: the doctor who helped stem a cot death epidemic

cot is a camp bed or infant bed. 

The Guardian
The Back to Sleep campaign, launched in 1991, changed the advice on sleeping position from front to back, and has had a public health benefit comparable to such breakthroughs as the moment Victorian epidemiologist John Snow took the handle off the Soho water pump in 1854 and stopped a cholera outbreak in its tracks. At the centre of the revolution was Bristol doctor Peter Fleming.

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