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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 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Westminster, City of]
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Tables B 1 and B 2 show the influence of the mother's work on her
health, confinement, mode of feeding of the child, and care of home.
Table A 1. —
| Number of Cases. | Children's Health. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy. | Delicate. | Dead. | |||||
| Number. | Per Cent. | Number. | Per Cent. | Number. | Per Cent. | ||
| 986 | Including 39 still-births and 19 deaths (rescue home cases) with insufficient information to include in the general table | 660 | 66.9 | 122 | 12.4 | 204 | 20.7 |
| 947 | Excluding the 39 still-births | 660 | 69.7 | 122 | 12.9 | 165 | 17.4 |
| 928 | Including 14 sets twins and 1 of triplets | ||||||
| 260 | Block | 206 | 79.3 | 26 | 10.0 | 28 (8) | 10.7 |
| 598 | Tenement | 405 | 67.8 | 84 | 14.0 | 109(20) | 18.2 |
| 70 | Cottage | 49 | 70.0 | 12 | 17.1 | 9 (3) | 12.9 |
| 5. Housing (sanitary conditions)— | |||||||
| 790 | Good | 597 | 75.6 | 81 | 10.2 | 112 (23) | 14.2 |
| 128 | Bad | 60 | 46.9 | 35 | 27.3 | 33 (6) | 25.8 |
| (90) | (Basement) | 58 | 64.4 | 19 | 21.1 | 13 (2) | 14.4 |
| 10 | Unstated | ||||||
| 728 | Comfortable | 546 | 75.0 | 79 | 10.8 | 103 (20) | 14.1 |
| 197 | Poor | 114 | 57.8 | 41 | 20.8 | 42 (9) | 21.3 |
| 3 | Unstated | -(2) | |||||
| 711 | Domestic | 533 | 75.0 | 76 | 10.7 | 102(18) | 14.3 |
| 32 | Working at home | 25 | 78.1 | 4 | 12.5 | 3 (2) | 9.4 |
| 181 | Working out | 98 | 54.2 | 42 | 23.2 | 41 (8) | 22.6 |
| 4 | Unstated | -(3) | |||||
| 745 | Strong | 582 | 78.1 | 80 | 10.7 | 83(16) | 11.1 |
| 171 | Delicate | 78 | 45.6 | 40 | 23.4 | 53 (10) | 31.0 |
| 12 | Unstated | (5) | |||||
| 558 | Breast | 449 | 80.5 | 62 | 11.1 | 47 | 8.4 |
| 46 | Partly a (under 6 weeks) | 27 | 58.7 | 6 | 13.0 | 13 | 28.3 |
| 79 | „ b (oyer 6 weeks and under 6 months) | 52 | 65.8 | 21 | 26.6 | 6 | 7.6 |
| 126 | Bottle | 67 | 53.2 | 26 | 20.6 | 33 | 26.2 |
| 87 | Unstated | ||||||
| 32 | Died under 1 week | ||||||
| 816 | Good | 607 | 74.4 | 98 | 12.0 | 111(26) | 13.6 |
| 99 | Bad | 53 | 53.5 | 18 | 18.2 | 28 (1) | 28.3 |
| 13 | Unstated | (4) | |||||
| * Figures in brackets denote the number still-born which are not reckoned in working out the percentages, | |||||||