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There were two deaths under one year from Rickets.
Both infants were hand fed from a few weeks old, condensed
milk and patent food were used in both cases.
Two deaths from Hydrocephalus were enquired into;
one child was hand fed, and the other breast fed. The
mother of this latter child was terribly anaemic.
Enquiries regarding the deaths of three infants from
Meningitis shewed that one was breast fed, one had
cows' milk and one condensed. The mother of one
child had been working as a machinist at a factory
before its birth; the mothers of the other two were
not industrially employed.
Of the deaths of the other infants no information
could be obtained in 10 cases. One mother was in the
Infirmary, and two entire families were in the Workhouse.
41 babies were said to have been entirely breast fed.
8 „ „ „ „ partly
g „ „ „ ,, had cows' milk
5 „ „ „ ,, had condensed milk
1 baby had both cows' and condensed milk.
There is little to be said about the cases of Measles
and Chicken-pox notified from the schools. Incorrect
addresses were often given and caused much waste of
time. Disinfection was usually declined, and nuisances
were dealt with as discovered.
The "special visits" were to cases of Puerperal
Fever, notifications sent voluntarily from Brompton
Hospital of Tuberculosis patients, and of children at
school with that disease, etc.