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Of that number 20 were not found, and in 12 cases it
was found that the child died in hospital or infirmary
while the mother was an in-patient of the same
institution, and therefore no information was obtainable.
Sixteen of these infants died within a few hours of
birth, and had no food at all; and 12 who died in
hospital were said to have been entirely breast fed till
they went there.
Of the rest
128 were said to have been entirely breast fed;
150 „ „ „ „ „ hand fed;
29 „ „ „ „ partly breast fed.
Ten of the partly breast fed infants were fed on
cows’ milk, condensed milk was used in 15 cases, one
had cornflour, two had patent food without milk, and
the other (11 months old) had much the same food as
the rest of the family.
The hand fed babies were mostly fed on cows’ milk,
it being used in 70 cases; 61 of them lived on condensed
milk, and 13 on patent foods. One baby of 4
months had bread and milk, and bread and gravy;
another had “light” food; 3 had the same as the rest
of the family; while still another, which was so
injured at birth that it could not live long, had both
cows’ and condensed milk, and every other kind of
food that its parents heard of.
There were, in addition to the above, 12 older
children, the circumstances of whose deaths were