Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth, Metropolitan Borough of]
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The particulars of the 18 deaths are as follow:—
Name. | Age. | State of Health when put on Milk. | Length of time on Milk. | Registered cause of Death. |
---|---|---|---|---|
T.P. | 2 mos. | Weakly | 22 weeks | Whooping-cough |
C.S. | 4 „ | 6 months child, very delicate, sickness | 2 „ | Enteritis |
H.H. | 10 „ | Weakly, sickness | 1 „ | Bronchitis |
H. | 6 „ | Whooping-cough, moribund | 10 days | Whooping-cough |
B. | 1 week | Delicate | 25 weeks | Diarrhœa and sickness |
G.H. | 3 mos. | Wasting | 15 „ | |
J.M. | 4½ „ | Delicate | 14 | |
L.M. | 4½ „ | 14 „ | ||
W.L. | 2 „ | Tubercular | 10 „ | Consumption |
L.S. | 1 | Wasting | 3 days | Convulsions |
S.B. | 2 „ | Sickness and Diarrhoea | 10 weeks | Bronchitis |
J.C. | 3 weeks | Healthy (twin) | 10 „ | Pneumonia |
E.H. | 7 mos. | Wasting, sickness and diarrhoea | 11 | Bronchitis |
B. | 2 „ | Weakly, sickness and diarrhoea | 1 day | Diarrhoea and sickness |
J.S. | 1 „ | Consumption, rickets, moribund | 7 „ | Consumption |
C. | 1 „ | Sickness, moribund | 8 „ | Sickness |
R. | 2 „ | Bronchitis, thrush, moribund | 7 „ | Bronchitis |
W.F. | 20 „ | Bronchitis, moribund | 16 „ |