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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

Wandsworth 1908

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

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96
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
previous year, largely due to the decrease in the number of deaths
of infants from the above causes.

Table: In 115 out of the total deaths under one year, special enquiries were made, and the following Table shows the nature of the food given.TABLE XLVII

In 115 out of the total deaths under one year, special enquiries were made, and the following Table shows the nature of the food given.

TABLE XLVII

Method of Feeding.Age in Months.
0—3.3—6.6—9.9—12.Total
1.—Breast-fed only64...212
Breast and cows' milk1...1...2
Do. cows' milk and food......1...1
2.—Cows' milk only141615348
Do. and condensed milk...1......1
Do. and farinaceous food142411
3-—Condensed milk only1073323
4.—Patent foods only1.........1
5.—Unknown383216
Totals36402514115

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Of the total of 99 children who died from these diseases where
the exact nature of the food given was ascertained, only 11, or 12
per cent., were nursed by the mother without the addition of any
other food, and of these six died in the first three months.
In 60, or 60 per cent., cows' milk, either alone or with condensed
milk or farinaceous food, was given; while in 23, or 23
per cent., condensed milk only was given. In only one case, a
child of under three months, had farinaceous food only been given;
while in 16 cases no information could be obtained (three in Clapham,
one in Putney, six in Streatham, two in Tooting, and 13 in