London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Deptford 1911

Annual report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Deptford

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Table: Details as to the feeding of the babies visited is given below. " Mixed feeding" means both breast and hand-fed.

Details as to the feeding of the babies visited is given below. " Mixed feeding" means both breast and hand-fed.

Wards.Breast Feeding.Mixed Feeding.Hand Feeding.Totals
East5014026567
North2522717296
North-west1331711161
South5106
South-east851313111
South-west656273
Totals1041104691214

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Deptford Clinic.
As already stated, Miss McMillan has recently enlarged
the scope of her work at the Deptford Clinic, and has arranged
that on one afternoon a week mothers may take their babies to
the clinic for examination by a qualified medical man. The
babies are weighed and advice is given to the mothers with
regard to treatment, feeding, clothing, etc. Acting on my
instructions your Health Visitor has visited the Clinic at various
times on these afternoons, and we are co-operating as far as
possible with the workers there. The work should be productive
of great good, and your Visitor is sanguine that the mothers in
Deptford will take advantage of the instruction there given
them.