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At 9 months old the milk may be thickened with one or two tablespoonfuls
of cornflour, and some broth or beef tea may be given. At
10 months old the child may have bread and milk, bread and butter, and
cornflour or porridge, but not meat.
Children require plenty of milk until the age of 3 years, as they cannot
digest the same food as grown up persons. After 18 months they may hare
fresh fish, gravy and bread crumbs, eggs, etc., once a day. Do not give them
beer, spirits, wine, cheese, pickles, pastry, fruits, nuts or sweets.
Do not give them teething powders, sleeping draughts or soothing syrups.
2.—General Requirements.
Keep infants warm with flannel underclothing, and take them out during
the day whenever it is fine, but not at night.
Fresh air and sunlight are nearly as important as food.
If they can be kept sufficiently warm they should sleep in cots or cradles
rather than in bed with parents; a clean box, such as an orange box, or a
clothes basket will do, if a cradle is not readily obtainable. Many babies
are overlaid every year from sleeping with their parents.
Wash them all over at least once a day with soap and warm water.
Rooms should be kept very clean and well ventilated, and the windows
open at the top.
Public Health Department,
Finsbury Town Hall,
Rosebery Avenue, E.G. 1905.
Deaths.—The total number of deaths registered in the district
was 1,900, but as 45 of these deaths were of persons who died in,
but resided outside, the Borough, that number has been deducted,
leaving a total of 1,855. This total includes 886 deaths of Finsbury
persons who died in various institutions outside the district. The
crude death rate is therefore 18 9 per 1,000 of the population, as
against 21T last year. The death rate for the whole of London in
1905 was 15'G per 1,000 living as compared with 16'6 in 1904.
The intra-parochial death rate, that is, the death rate calculated
on the number of persons who actually died inside the Borough,
is 10.3, as compared with 11.9 in 1904. This figure is, of course, of
no value except for local comparative purposes.
The crude death rates in the Borough since its formation may
be stated as follows:—