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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

Wandsworth 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: 88 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.TABLE XLIV.INFANTS RE-VISITED.{TABLE II.)

88 Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

TABLE XLIV.

INFANTS RE-VISITED.

{TABLE II.)

Clapham.Putney.Streatham.Tooting.Fairfield.Springfield.Whole Borough.
Infants re-visited3513973043191
i. Breast fed only121139152896
2. Otherwise fed :—
(a) Breast and cows'milk............114520
(b) Breast and condensed milk.........1113
(c) Breast and farinaceous food1...195521
(d) Breast, cows' milk and farinaceous food.........7......7
(e) Breast, condensed milk and farinaceous food.........2316
(f) Cows' milk only...2...15...219
(g) Cows' milk and farinaceous food1......81...10
(h) Condensed milk only...1l4118
(i) Condensed milk and farinaceous food.........1......1
Totals23258151595

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As it was quite impossible to visit all the houses in the Borough
where births had occurred, it was decided to limit the enquiry to
certain well-defined areas, and the areas selected were Tooting,
Fairfield and Springfield Wards. In these Wards the infantile
mortality has always been greatest and it was hoped that greater
good would ensue by limiting the work to these Wards.