Question
Théophile Roussel spearheaded a law to monitor mortality linked to this practice, which George D. Sussman argued was a major driver of France’s slow population growth in the 19th century. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this practice in which working-class, servant, or enslaved women breastfeed infants in place of their mothers. This practice mostly died out in Europe after the invention of infant formula.
ANSWER: wet nursing [accept wet nurse; prompt on nursing]
[10h] Wet nursing was a component of this 19th century service, in which matrons adopted infants for a fee. Notorious providers of this service like Amelia Dyer sometimes starved or outright killed their wards for a greater profit.
ANSWER: baby farming
[10m] Wet nursing’s persistence in France led this prime minister to give a 15-franc stipend to mothers who nursed their own children. This politician made a failed bid for president one year after codifying the eight-hour workday.
ANSWER: Georges Clemenceau [or Georges Benjamin Clemenceau]
<Henry Atkins, European History>