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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

Croydon 1920

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Table: TABLE A.

TABLE A.

Infants dying from Diarrhœal Diseases. 0.6 months.Infants dying from other than Diarrhœal Diseases. 0.6 months.Infants surviving 6 months.Total investigated.
Breast Fed only167516981789
Breast and subsequently Cow's milk...3115118
Ditto Condensed Milk134953
Ditto Other foods15190196
Breast & simultaneously Cow's Milk114850
Ditto Condensed Milk...14546
Ditto Other foods......110110
Entirely Hand Fed—
Cow's Milk7113856
Ditto Condensed Milk2123751
Ditto Other foods141589118
Number investigated4212624192587

Table: TABLE B.—The same information expressed in percentages.

TABLE B.—The same information expressed in percentages.

Of all infants investigated under 6 months.Of infants dying from Diarrhœal Diseases. 0-6 months.Of infants dying from other than Diarrhœal Diseases.
per cent.per cent.per cent.
Breast Fed only69.138.159.5
Breast and subsequently Cow's Milk4.6...2.4
Ditto Condensed Milk2.02.42.4
Ditto Other foods7.02.44.0
Breast and simultaneously Cow's Milk1.92.4.8
Ditto Condensed Milk1.8....8
Ditto Other foods4.3......
Entirely Hand Fed—Cow's Milk2.216.78.7
Ditto Condensed Milk1.94.79.5
Ditto Other foods4.633.311.9
100.0100.0100.0

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Table B shows that 38.l per cent. of infant deaths from diarrhoeal
diseases occurred amongst breast-fed children, and the remaining 61.9 per
cent. amongst children who were either entirely hand fed or had artificial
kinds of food as well as breast fed.+