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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 1912

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

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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
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Table: TABLE L.

TABLE L.

Method of Feeding.Age in Months.
0-33-6.6-9.9-12.Total.
I.-Breast-fed only6...118
Do. and cows' milk1......12
Do. and food.........11
2.—Cows' milk only762217
Do. and food3...115
3.—Condensed milk only661...13
Do. and food...1......1
4.—Dried milk...1......1
5.—Unknown262212
Totals25207860

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Of the total of 48 children who died from these diseases where
the exact nature of the food given was ascertained, only eight, or
16.6 per cent, were nursed by the mother without the addition of
any other food, and of these six died in the first three months.
Three of these being delicate from birth.
In 22, or 45 8 per cent., cows' milk, either alone or with farinaceous
food was given; in 14 or 29.2 per cent., condensed milk
only or condensed milk and farinaceous food was given; while in
one dried milk only was given. In 12 cases, from various causes
no information could be obtained.
Of the 60 deaths 17 occurred in the Union Infirmaries and
three in hospitals outside the Borough.