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283
Families occupying:—
One room per family 12.4 per cent.
Two rooms per family 22.87 ,,
Re-visits 2,643
Removed and not traced 227
Died 46
Mothers who worked after birth of child:—
Home-work 3.88 per cent.
Factory, workshop, charing, etc. 7.17 „
Vital Statistics.
The figures appended refer to infants born in 1912, and kept under
supervision for a year—they show an increase of 81 in the number kept
under supervision, and a decrease of 6.39 per thousand in the rate of
mortality, as compared to 1912.
Visited 2,592
Removed and not traced 573
Died 168
Rate of mortality per 1,000 visited 83.209
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, 1913):—
Breast-fed 75.80 per cent.
Mixed feeding 21.51 „
Hand fed 2.64 „
(2) Those who died:—
Breast-fed 60.1 per cent.
Mixed feeding 28.5 „
Hand-fed 11.3 „
(3) Comparison of Rates of Mortality between infants.
Breast-fed 6.6 percent.
Mixed feeding 10.7 „
Hand-fed 27.9 ,,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Notifications received 75
Visits paid 73
Re-visits paid 40
Recovered 70
Died while under treatment 2
Removed while under treatment —
Remaining under supervision 3