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Sanitary conditions of homes:—
71 of the 1,110 homes were very dirty.
314 „ ,, „ dirty.
In 385 (i.e., 35 per cent.), therefore, of the homes there
was evidence, more or less, of neglect of cleanly habits.
(b) As to the child: health at birth:—
Of the 1,110 infants visited at their homes the conditions
as regards health were ascertained to be as follows:—
311 were at the time they were visited more or less
seriously ill.
Of these 1,110 infants, information as to the feeding was
obtained with regard to 1,066.
Breast fed only 894
Infants' Milk Dep6t 102
Cows Milk 18
Breast and other food 52
Two hundred and sixteen of the mothers of these 1,110 children
had had previous history of accidents at birth, and 116 of
them had "gone out to work" before confinement.
A very large number of revisits were paid to the homes of
these infants both by the Council's Health Visitors and the Visitors
of the Battersea Voluntary Health Society.
Infants' Milk Depot.
During the year 1909, the number of infants fed from the
Milk Depot was 567, as compared with 632 in 1908. Of this
number 527 were resident in Battersea and the remaining 40 in
neighbouring districts. Of the 567 infants fed, 204 were already
on the books of the Milk Dep6t at the beginning of the year, so
that the number of children who were admitted during the year
was 363.
The length of time during which these children were fed from
the Depot up to the end of December, 1909, is shown in the
following table:—