<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:coverage>United States, Georgia, Mitchell County, Camilla, 31.23129, -84.21046</dc:coverage><dc:creator>Borders, Beatrice, 1892-1971</dc:creator><dc:date>1958/59</dc:date><dc:description>Birth register completed by Beatrice Borders, an African American state-certified midwife who established the Georgia B. Williams Nursing Home in Camilla, Georgia, a professional birthing center that served African American women during segregation in the twentieth century. This register accounts for 147 deliveries that took place between 1958 and 1959 (More 1958 deliveries are recorded in register C, and more 1959 deliveries are recorded in register D and register H).These records were recorded in mid-century composition notebooks. Depending on the volume, some entries include the mother's name, the date she entered the facility, the time of the birth, the baby's weight, the baby's gender, and whether there were any complications such as stillbirths. Some entries include additional genealogical information such as occupation, age, and address, birthplace, number of children in the family, and the name of the father.</dc:description><dc:format>image/jp2</dc:format><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:rights>http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/</dc:rights><dc:subject>Midwifery--United States--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>African American midwives--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Women midwives--United States--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>African Americans-Economic conditions--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Discrimination in medical care--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Maternal health services--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Rural health services--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Maternal health care teams--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Segregation--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Registers of births, etc.--Georgia--Camilla</dc:subject><dc:subject>Genealogy</dc:subject><dc:title>Book FF, 1958-1959 Deliveries</dc:title><dc:type>Text</dc:type></oai_dc:dc>