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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 1910

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.

Table: TABLE LI 11.

TABLE LI 11.

Method of Feeding.Agein Months.
0—3.1 3-6.6—9.9—12Total
1.—Breast-fed only421...7
Breast and cows' milk22...37
Do. cows' milk and food...1124
Do. and condensed milk.........11
2.—Cows'milk only99s124
Do. and farinaceous food...2215
3.—Condensed milk only123...6
4.— Do. and farinaceous food......314
5.—Unknown4...318
Totals2018181066

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Of the total of 58 children who died from these diseases
where the exact nature of the food given was ascertained, only
seven, or 12 per cent., were nursed by the mother without the
addition of any other food, and of these four died in the first three
months.
In 29, or 50 per cent., cows' milk, either alone or with condensed
milk or farinaceous food, was given; while in 10, or 17.2
per cent., condensed milk only, or condensed milk and farinaceous
food was given. In eight cases no information could be obtained,
one in Clapham, two in Putney, one in Streatham, one in Tooting,
and three in Wandsworth.
In many of the cases the enquiries of the Inspectors showed
that the children had been suffering from other diseases, had been
delicate from birth, or had been born prematurely.