Frida Imboden-Kaiser
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 |
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period | St. Gallen | Switzerland |
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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
- 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
literature
- Marcel Mayer: Frida Imboden-Kaiser. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Max Lemmenmeier: embroidery blossom . In: Sankt Galler Geschichte 2003, Volume 6, Die Zeit des Kantons 1861-1914 . Office for Culture of the Canton of St. Gallen, St. Gallen 2003, ISBN 3-908048-43-5 ; Pages 12f
Web links
- Children's hospital in eastern Switzerland
- Breast milk remains the standard of infant nutrition. St. Galler Tagblatt, December 27, 2008, accessed September 4, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lemmenmeier, page 12
personal data | |
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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 |