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suggested in connection with that disease, with others, apply equally
to infantile mortality.
The most important effects in the future may be expected from
general educational efforts, including lectures and addresses at
evening classes, instruction of the elder girls attending elementary
schools in personal, domestic and infant hygiene, and also by the
distribution of leaflets and pamphlets on the feeding and management
of infants.
There are other factors, more of a moral nature, which affect
this rate as well as the birth-rate, but for obvious reasons cannot be
entered into here.
South
Wimbledon
Day
Nursery.
This nursery received 4091 children during the year, a great
reduction from the number admitted in 1903 which was 6502.
The institution which for some years has been doing good work
in the district of Haydon's Road in the care of infants whilst the
mothers are at work, was greatly hampered in its uselulness during
the past year by reason of the epidemics of Measles and Whooping
Cough prevalent from January to July; also, in consequence of a
large number of men and women being unemployed later in the
year, and who were thus unable to afford the few pence necessary to
obtain the benefits of the institution.
Isolation
Hospital.
The following table furnished by the Hospital Medical Attendant,
Dr. Clapham, gives particulars as to the number of patients
treated in the Hospital for each disease during the year :—