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per cent. artificially-fed. The employment of farinaceous
foods at too early a period (i.e., before the eighth
month) is specially dangerous—even when such foods
are given with the breast-milk. The foods found to
be in use in connection with the cases under investigation
were (1) bread (crusts, "tops and bottoms," etc.);
(2) oatmeal; (3) prepared barley flour; (4) patent foods
such as Mellin's, Ridge's, Allenbury's, Milo, Glaxo,
Benger, etc. (Vide Statistics on pages 87 and 90.)
(c) Epidemic Diarrhœa is specially fatal to infants
and children living in crowded districts. (Of the 296
cases, 73.6 per cent, lived in the Inner, and 26.4 per
cent, in the Outer Wards.)
Other Details.
Of the 296 deaths, 196 (i.e., 66.2 per cent.) were infants
and children who had been previously insured.