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The feeding of the above infants during the first six months of life
was as follows :—
(1.) Those alive at end of completed year (December, 1911)
Breast-fed 83.57 per cent.
Mixed feeding 14.40 ,,
Hand-fed 2.03 ,,
100.00
(2.) Those who died:—
Breast-fed 62.5 per cent.
Mixed feeding 30.47 ,,
Hand-fed 7.03 „
100.00
(3.) Comparison of rates of mortality between infants —
Breast-fed 8.12 per cent.
Mixed feeding 20.00 „
Hand-fed 29.03 ,,
530 of the infants born in 1910 attended the Consultation Days, an
increase of 77 compared with 1909. The average attendance at each was
3.04, a decrease of 2.24.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Notifications received 43
Visits paid 43
Re-visits paid 79
Still under supervision 2
Recovered 37
Sight of one eye impaired 2
(Handed over to N.S.P.C.C.)
Blind 2
(One died while still under treatment.)
Thirty-two of the cases (including the four last) were attended by
midwives, eleven by medical men.