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Decline of wet nursing.

Date: 1920s

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Hospital wings cease employing wet nurses, who are usually women living in poverty who have no other way to make an income.

Wet nurses were previously hired by both hospitals and private wealthy families, often forcing poor women to put their own infants on formula so that they could breastfeed other people's children.