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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
Infant Visiting.
There were 4,881 births during the year and 3,961 of these,
or 81.1 per cent., were visited, compared with 79.9 in 1924, 77.1
in 1923, 81.1 in 1922, and 77.2 in 1921.
Table XXIX. gives the particulars of the method of feeding
of infants on the occasion of the initial visit and when revisited.
Of 3,961 infants visited for the first time, 3,394 were entirely
breast-fed, while 194 were fed partly on the breast and partly
by other methods, and 373 were entirely bottle-fed.
On revisiting 2,390 infants were found to be fed entirely on
the breast, 829 were partially breast-fed, and 1,367 were fed
artificially.

74 of the infants visited were born prematurely, and 41 were
delicate from birth. The visits included 86 children who were
born as twins and three cases of triplets.