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Lambeth 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lambeth]

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The existing depot plant is capable of preparing the necessary
milk mixture for 400-500 infants, but the existing staff
(two attendants) is fully occupied in dealing with the 60-70
infants at present being fed. Indeed, compared with other
Milk Depots, Lambeth is at present under-staffed. The
increase in staff that would be required to cope with increased
work at the depot may be stated as follows:—
Infants to be fed. Attendants required.
0-50 2, (present staff),
50-100 3,
100-200 4, and
an extra attendant for every additional 100 infants. Extra
beetles, rubbers, stoppers, baskets, etc., would also be
required. To work the existing plant to its utmost capacity
(i.e., to feed 500 infants), with a correspondingly increased
staff thereby required (viz.: seven attendants), the estimate
would work out (roughly) as follows :—

Table: 1906.CASES OF ILLNESS NOTIFIED FROM BOARD SCHOOLS, &c., TO MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.

1906.

CASES OF ILLNESS NOTIFIED FROM BOARD SCHOOLS, &c., TO MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.

SCHOOLS.Measles.Chicken Pox.Whooping Cough.Scarlet Fever.Ringworm.Mumps.Diphtheria.Typhoid.Eczema.Blight.Itch.Erysipelas.Influenza.Ophthalmia.Croup.Infect. Catarrh.Scabies.Consumption.Glass Pox.Tonsillitis.TOTAL.
Archbishop Sumner's721213.......................................117
Addington Street25...3......5.......................................16
Aristotle Road...11......1..........................................3
Beresford Street...3............2.......................................5
Cormont Road92514103.......................................34
Church Street5381144433.......................................129
Carlisle Street4014216473.......................................96
Cancell Road3631...382.......................................53
Corpus Christi, Brixton Hill37.........................................................37
Dulwich Hamlet9......4...1..........................................14
Eftra Parade252938215152.......................................172
Eden Road...27133.............................................34
Edgecombe Road.........1...1..........................................2
Fountain Street2514136442.......................................71
Grosvenor Terrace.........1...................................................
Gipsy Road9242016281310.......................................126
Holy Trinity, Upper Tulse Hill40......213..........................................46
Hazelrigge Road10...132.............................................17
Hatfield Street2612101027..........................................69
Hackford Road86143614181421...1...............2...............316
High Street, S.E.129686109...1...............3...............70
Hitherfield Road20...1513..........................................30
Heygate Street.........3................................................3
Johanna Street5412252112....................................84
Jessop Road230753402.......................................89
Kennington Road31613...234.......................................61
Larkhall Lane1......1...................................................2
Lingham Street553533173419...2.................................168
Leipsic Road.........1................................................1
Lyham Road139191448379...1............11...2.........154

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The bottles required would number for one year for 500
infants a total of (about) 1,622,000, i.e., over 4,000 a day.
On an average, each infant requires eight bottles a day, and
the charge is 2s. per week.
# N.B.—This loss of £l7S (based on an average of is. 9d. per infant per
week) would be converted into a gain of 150 if an average of 2s. per
infant per week were taken.