LEADER 00000cam 2200289Ia 4500 001 ocn879498878 003 OCoLC 005 20160428015928.0 008 140509t20082002enka b 000 0deng d 019 183916522 020 0753823837 020 9780753823835 020 1407228048 (pbk.) 020 9781407228044 (pbk.) 050 4 RG950|b.W675 2008 100 1 Worth, Jennifer,|d1935-2011. 245 10 Call the midwife :|ba true story of the East End in the 1950s /|cJennifer Worth. 260 London :|bPhoenix,|c2008. 300 x, 340, 11 p. :|bill. ;|c20 cm. 500 Includes an excerpt of Shadows of the workhouse. 504 Includes bibliographical references (page 340) 520 Life in London's docklands in the 1950s was tough. The brothels of Cable Street, the Kray brothers and gang warfare, the meths drinkers in the bombsites-this was the world that Jennifer Worth entered when she became a midwife at the age of twenty-two. Babies were born in slum conditions, often with no running water. Jennifer Worth describes the romance and beauty of the great port of London, the bug-infested tenements, the spectre of disease, the sense of community and the incredible resilience of women who bore more than ten children. Funny, disturbing and moving, Call the Midwife brings to life a world that has now changed beyond measure. 600 10 Worth, Jennifer,|d1935-2011. 650 0 Midwives|zEngland|zLondon|vBiography. 650 0 Childbirth|zEngland|zLondon|xHistory|y20th century. 651 0 East End (London, England)|xSocial conditions|y20th century.
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