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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

Wandsworth 1916

Annual report on the health, sanitary condition, &c., of the Borough for the year1916

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Tooting and 31 in Wandsworth. In all the sub-districts there
was a decrease compared with 1915.
The death-rate was 30 per 1,000, (in Clapham .23, in Putney
.14, in Streatham .24, in Tooting .66, and in Wandsworth .33).
Of the total number of deaths registered, 68 or 71 per cent.
were of infants under one year, and the total number of deaths
of children under two years was 74, equal to a rate of .23 per
1,000.
The number of deaths from Diarrhoea, Zymotic Enteritis,
and Enteritis under one year, represents 13.9 per cent. of the total
mortality at that age.
In all the deaths under one year from Diarrhoea and Enteritis,
special inquiries were made, and the following Tables show the
nature of the food given.

Table: TABLE XIX.

TABLE XIX.

Method of Feeding.Age in Months.
0 and under 3.3 and under 6.6 and under 9.9 and under 12.Total.
1.—Breast-fed only34......7
Do. and condensed milk......4...4
Do. and dried milk11......2
2.—Cows' milk only2145223
Do. and food...1113
3.—Condensed milk only15118
Do. and dried milk...1......1
Do. and food...1225
4.—Dried milk311...5
Do. and food...2......2
5.—Farinaceous and other foods11......2
6.—Unknown222...6
Totals133316668