London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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
City of Westminster 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Table II.
| Number of Cases | Infants. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy. | Delicate. | Dead. | |||||
| Number. | Per Cent. | Number. | Per Cent. | Number. | Per Cent. | ||
| 176 | Block | 144 | 81.3 | 8 | 4.6 | 25 * | 14.1 |
| 307 | Tenement | 235 | 75.8 | 36 | 11.6 | 39 | 12.6 |
| 10 | Cottage | 9 | 81.8 | 1 | 9.1 | 1 | 9.1 |
| 383 | Good | 315 | 81.4 | 28 | 7.2 | 44 | 11.4 |
| 71 | Indifferent | 52 | 73.3 | 11 | 15.5 | 8 | 11.2 |
| 30 | Bad | 16 | 53.3 | 6 | 20 | 8 | 26.7 |
| (12) | (Basement) | (10) | 83.4 | (1) | 8.3 | (1) | (8.3) |
| 9 | Unstated | 5 | 50 | — | — | 5 | 50 |
| 372 | Comfortable (over 25s.) | 300 | 80.2 | 32 | 8.6 | 42 | 11.2 |
| 59 | Poor (21.?. to 25s. inclusive) | 47 | 77.1 | 8 | 13.1 | 6 | 9.8 |
| 31 | "Very poor (under 21s.) | 19 | 59.4 | 2 | 9.4 | 10 | 31.2 |
| 31 | Unstated | 22 | 68.7 | 3 | 9.4 | 7 | 21.9 |
| 286 | No occupation | 230 | 79.9 | 28 | 9.6 | 31 | 10.5 |
| 130 | Homework .. | 100 | 76.3 | 12 | 9.1 | 19 | 14.6 |
| 77 | "Working out | 58 | 74.3 | 5 | 6.4 | 15 | 19.3 |
| 414 | Stronge | 342 | 82.1 | 33 | 7.9 | 42 | 10 |
| 79 | Delicate | 46 | 50.8 | 12 | 14.8 | 23 | 28.4 |
| 299 | Breast | 276 | 92.3 | 18 | 6.0 | 5 | 1.7 |
| 71 | „ (under 4 weeks) | 34 | 48.5 | 10 | 14.4 | 27 (11) | 37.1 |
| 66 | ,, (over 1 month and not 6 months).. | 50 | 75.6 | 8 | 12.2 | 8 | 12.2 |
| 53 | Bottle | 28 | 52.7 | 9 | 171 | 16 (3) | 30.2 |
* Figures in brackets denote infants dying under 1 month,
† 23 infants—9 still-born, 14 dying within 1 week, excluded.
Table III.
| Number of Cases. | Mother's Work. | (a) Mother's Health. | (b.) Confinement. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy. | Delicate. | Normal. | Abnormal. | |||||||
| 286 | No occupation | 239 | 47 | 266 | 20 | |||||
| 130 | Home work | 110 | 20 | 119 | 11 | |||||
| 77 | Working out | 65 | 12 | 73 | 4 | |||||
| 493 | ||||||||||
| Number of Cases. | Mother's Work. | (c) Mode of deeding.* | (d) Care of Home. | |||||||
| Breast. | Partly | Bottle. | Good. | Indifferent. | Bad. | |||||
| 286 | No occupation | 188 | 38 | 34 | 34 | 26 | 236 | 34 | 16 | |
| 130 | Home work | 77 | 26 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 99 | 24 | 7 | |
| 77 | Working out .. | 34 | 15 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 57 | 13 | 7 | |
| 493 | ||||||||||
* 23 infants—9 still-born, 14 dying within 1 week, excluded.
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