Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1909 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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Enquiries made after death— Industrial work discontinued before confinement— | In case of mothers industrially employed in factory— | ||
---|---|---|---|
At Home. | Otherwise. | Elsewhere. | |
1 week | 25 | 2 | |
2 weeks | 3 | 2 | |
3 weeks | 9 | ||
4 weeks | 7 | ||
8 weeks | 1 | ||
12 weeks | 1 | ||
26 weeks | |||
Over 26 weeks | |||
Industrial work resumed after confinement, within | |||
4 weeks | 28 | ||
6 weeks | |||
8 weeks | |||
12 weeks | |||
52 weeks | |||
Feeding—breast alone— | |||
1 month | |||
2 months | |||
3 months | |||
6 months | 128 | ||
Feeding—breast partly— | |||
1 month | |||
2 months | |||
3 months | |||
6 months | 29 | ||
Artificial entirely | 150 |