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The first part of the scheme was commenced in 190-1, and has been gradually
elaborated and extended since. The mortality of infants under one year of
age per 1,000 births in St. Pancras has been as follows:—
1901 152
1905 136
1906 131
1907 114
NATIONAL CONFERENCES ON INFANTILE MORTALITY.
In Part VII. of the Report for 1906 the Resolutions of the National
Conference on Infantile Mortality, held in June, 1906, at Caxton Hall, were
set out.
In Part VII. of this Report for 1907, the Resolutions of the National
Conference on Infantile Mortality, held in March, 1908, will also be found
set out.
In comparing the two Congresses it will be observed that in the proceedings
of the later Congress there was no resolution in reference either to expectant
or to suckling mothers.
REPORT OF THE WOMAN INSPECTOR.
Public Health Department,
Town Hall, Pancras Road, N.W.
April 6th, 1908.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
Sir,
During the year 1907, the work done in connection with the efforts to
lessen the Infant Mortality of St. Pancras has continued on the same lines as
shown at some length in my reports to you for the years 1905 and 1906.
All the various measures employed with the object of inducing and
prolonging natural feeding (e.g Distribution of Advice Cards; personal visits
to Mothers; the referring of Mothers and Infants to Doctors, Hospitals, &c.)
have been carried on this year as hitherto.
In addition, the St. Pancras " School for Mothers," and " Babies' Welcome "
(formally opened in July at the Town Hall Meeting, presided over by Lord
Robert Cecil) has supplied a distinct want in the district, and has usefully
supplemented the Infant-work carried on municipally; in that it is a place to
which Babies (seen in the homes by myself or by the voluntary visitors) can
be referred for weighing; and the Mothers for extra advice and teaching, and
additional nourishment, when the Doctor orders this for the Nursing-mother;
and the Fathers for a friendly talk and lecture, once a week, by a medical
man. [Full details of the working of the "Welcome" are given in the
small descriptive book entitled " A School for Mothers," published by Horace
Marshall & Son].