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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Poplar 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: (The following tables refer to the whole Borough.) Statistics Respecting Infants Born in 1933.

(The following tables refer to the whole Borough.) Statistics Respecting Infants Born in 1933.

All births, including those occurring in outlying districts, but belonging to the Borough2,419
Doctors in attendance269
Midwives in attendance784
Delivered in institutions1,35I
Not stated15
Moved into Borough142
2,561
Stillborn (Stillbirths per 1,000 births, 25.2)61
Died before visit54
Not requiring or desiring visits50
165
Visited2,396
Removed within the year352
Died during visitation81
—433
Remaining under supervision end of first year1,963
Mortality per 1,000 visited33.8

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The 1,963 children visited during 1934 and remaining under supervision
at the end of their first year of life, were fed during the first six
months of life as follows:—
Breast-fed 73.1 per cent.
Mixed feeding 20.5 ,,
Hand-fed 6.4 ,,
The 81 children who died during the first year of life, were fed
during the first six months of life as follows:—
Breast-fed 21.0 per cent.
Mixed feeding 35.8
Hand-fed 43.2