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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
Poplar 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Families occupying—
1 Room 11.01 per cent.
2 Rooms 17.54 ,,
Re- Visits.
Re-visits 2.471 per cent.
Removed and not traced 155 ,,
Died 40 „
The remaining 2,276 were fed as follows:—
Breast-fed 60.10 per cent.
Hand-fed 17.31 ,,
Mixed Feeding 22.58 ,,
Mothers working after birth of child:—
At Home 3.16 per cent.
Elsewhere 2.24 „
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
FRANCES E. ALLDRITT,
Certificates—Royal Sanitary Institute,
Central Midwives Board. Diploma
National Health Society. (Silver
Medallist.)