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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 1911

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

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100
Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
In all the deaths under one year from Diarrhoea and Enteritis,
special inquiries were made, and the following Tables show the
nature of the food given.

Table: TABLE LI I .

TABLE LI I .

Method of Feeding,Age in Months.
0—3.3—6.6—9.9—12.Total.
1.— Breast-fed only1051218
Breast and cows' milk12...14
Do. and cows' milk and food......2...2
Do. and food...1113
2.—Cows' milk only1643161186
Do. and condensed milk11......2
Do. and food48101133
3.—Condensed milk only151321655
Do. and food21210933
4.—Farinaceous and other foods...2226
5.—Unknown571114
Totals54946444256

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Of the total of 242 children who died from these diseases
where the exact nature of the food given was ascertained, only
18, or 7.4 per cent., were nursed by the mother without the addition
of any other food, and of these 10 died in the first three months.
In 121, or 50 per cent., cows' milk, either alone or with cordensed
milk or farinaceous food, was given ; in 88 or 363 per cent.,
condensed milk only, or condensed milk and farinaceous food was
given; while in six or 2.4 per cent, farinaceous or patent foods only
was given. In 14 cases, from various causes, no information could
be obtained.