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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
Battersea 1911
[Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1911]
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No. of previous Children in family.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 169 | 123 | 128 | 105 | 110 | 71 | 72 | 60 | 27 | 29 | 18 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | ||
| No. of previous Deaths of Children in Family. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |||||||||
| 137 | 75 | 35 | 5 | 9 | 4 | 2 | — | 2 | |||||||||
| No. of Rooms occupied by Family. | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Caravans. | |||||||||||
| 97 | 239 | 393 | 139 | 19 | 11 | 2 | |||||||||||
Sanitary Condition of Homes.
Forty-one of these 1,025 homes were found to be very dirty
and 184 others showed evidence more or less of uncleanliness.
On the whole these figures compare favourably with those of
previous years (vide previous annual reports) and points to a
progressive tendency as regards the advantages of personal cleanliness.
As regards the child : health at birth:—
Of the 1,025 infants visited at their homes the state of health
was ascertained to be as follows:—
Two hundred and twenty-five were at the time they were
first visited more or less seriously ill.
The diseases from which these children suffered embraced the
following. Indigestion, Syphilis, Wasting, Bronchitis, Ophthalmia,
Naevus, Cleft Palate and Hare-lip, Immaturity, Congenital Debility
and Prematurity, Catarrh of Bowels, Thrush, Rickets, Marasmus,
Constipation, Rupture, Deformed Foot, Convulsions, Jaundice,
Diarrhoea, Intussusception, &c.
Of the 1,025 infants information as to the feeding was obtained
with the following results.
Breast fed only 794
Infants' Milk Depot 78
Cow's milk, Condensed milks, &c. 142