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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 1912
Report on the health of the Metropolitan Borough of Battersea for the year 1912
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In the following table will be found particulars relating to the family history of the mothers of these children and their circumstances as regards dwelling-house accommodation.
| No. of previous Children in family. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 12 | 14 15 | 16 | |
| 142 | 113 | 118 | 88 | 86 | 60 | 46 | 44 | 37 | 24 | 6 | 13 3 | 3 1 | 1 | |
| No. of previous Deaths of Children in Family. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | |||||||
| 141 | 76 23 | 16 | 12 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| No. of Rooms occupied by Family. | ||||||||||||||
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | |||||||||
| 111 | 211 | 384 | 133 | 53 | 20 | |||||||||
Sanitary Condition oj Homes.
Twenty-three of these 1,045 homes were found to be very
dirty and 142 others showed evidence more or less of uncleanliness.
There is a continuous improvement, it is satisfactory to
report, in the sanitary condition of the homes as compared with
previous years.
As regards the child : health at birth :—
Of the 1,045 infants visited at their homes 243 were found to
be at the time of the first visit more or less seriously ill.
There were 53 twin births in the Borough, distributed as
follows:—East Battersea, 21; North-West Battersea, 17; SouthWest
Battersea, 15. Of the 53 twin births, in 18 instances the
twins were fed from the Council's Milk Dep6t.