Frida Imboden-Kaiser

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Frida Imboden-Kaiser (born July 3, 1877 in St. Gallen ; † April 25, 1962 there , Catholic, from St. Gallen) was a Swiss doctor . Their commitment ensured a sustainable reduction in the previously above-average infant mortality rate in the industrialized districts of the canton of St. Gallen .

Life

Infant mortality in the canton of St. Gallen
Number of deaths in the first year of life per 1,000 live births
period St. Gallen Switzerland
1867-1870 272 210
1871-1875 252 198
1876-1880 232 188
1881-1885 209 171
1886-1890 182 159
1891-1895 164 158
1896-1900 145 143
1901-1905 149 134
1906-1910 128 115
1911-1914 111 101
1936-1940 45 45
1951-1955 27 29
1988-1991 7th 7th

Frida was born in 1877 as the daughter of the Rector of the St. Gallen Cantonal School and later Councilor Adolf Kaiser . As one of the first women she was later allowed to attend this cantonal school herself and then studied medicine at the universities of Bern and Geneva . In 1905 she was awarded her doctorate. She then worked for a few years in the children's department of the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital , but found that more infants died there “than in the Charité in Berlin ”. The reasons for this are mainly due to the working conditions that the St. Gallen embroidery brought with it: The mothers had to work again as soon as possible after the birth and therefore breastfed their children early and the hygiene left a lot to be desired (see the article there) . Therefore she founded the "Association for Infant Care", which she also presided over from 1910 to 1942.

In 1909, Frida Kaiser founded an infant home in St. Gallen, where sick and neglected toddlers were cared for and infant care courses were also offered. Over the years, this infant home has become an important infant hospital with a catchment area as far as the Rhine Valley and Vorarlberg. Today it has become the St. Gallen Children's Hospital, an important clinical center for paediatrics. She also founded an infant welfare office with mother counseling and a milk kitchen that sold ready-to-drink baby milk. In general, she was very committed to the natural nutrition of babies with breast milk . She began a real campaign for breastfeeding and loving child care, as she was convinced based on statistical findings that a major reason for the early death of many children was that they had only been able to drink far too short from the mother's breast. She also published relevant publications and built up a cantonal network of maternal advice centers.

In 1912 Frida Imboden-Kaiser was involved in founding the Swiss Pro Juventute Foundation, which then supported the publication of her writings.

In 1953, Frida Imboden-Kaiser (she had married Karl Friedrich Imboden in 1913) was able to proudly state that, thanks in no small part to her commitment, the infant mortality rate in the canton of St. Gallen was the lowest in Switzerland, whereas 50 years earlier it had looked significantly different. She died in her hometown in 1962.

Works

Caricature by Hedwig Scherrer
  • From life experience and memory , St. Gallen 1958
  • How I care for my little one: little booklet for mothers ; Edited by the Central Secretariat Pro Juventute, Zurich 1930; 10th edition
  • We are not masters of life and death: warning to d. Swiss women for protection d. future u. dying life ; St. Gallen 1924
  • The woman in the family ; Aarau 1923
  • From the practice of raising young children ; St. Gallen 1916

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lemmenmeier, page 12
personal data
SURNAME Imboden-Kaiser, Frida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Imboden, Frida; Kaiser, Frida
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss doctor
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Gallen
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 1962
Place of death St. Gallen