A Famishing Woman is Taken in Labour, Mother and Child Both Die.

“What can be the result of such an event amidst the horrors of the famine? A birth in the open air under ordinary circumstances is perilous; but here, in a strange place, with disease and death around, the famishing mother gasps he last, and the child gives a few feeble wails and dies. Very few babies are born to live in this year of famine; where are the kind people to supply the swaddling clothes and money necessary to keep them alive?” (p. 21)

China 1878, 4 woodcuts, from The Famine in China, Illustrations by a Native Artist, with a translation of the Chinese Text (by the Rev. James Legge), London: China Famine Relief Fund/Kegan Paul & Co., 1878.

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