[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of] page 43

St Pancras 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]

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Inquiry as to Industrial Employment of Mai'ried Women and Infant Mortality (1908).

SUMMARY.

Area St. Pancras, Ward VI. (East).

II.—EMPLOYMENT OF MOTHER IN RELATION TO HEALTH OF CHILD.
A.—Children surviving first year 356					' 6 Particulars not ascertained.
					92 Mothers industrially employed.
					,258 Mothers not industrially employed.
				Total, in case of mother industrially employed.		In case of mothers industrially employed.				In case of mothers not industrially employed.
						A.t home.	In factory or workshop.		Elsewhere.
						A.t home.	In lead.	Otherwise.	Elsewhere.
Industrial work discontinued before confinement		Not begun during' this Pregnancy ..		92	17	—	—	—	—	258 mothers were not industrially employed at all.
		< 1 week			21	9	—	2	10
		< 2 weeks			2	—	—	1	1
		<3 „			1	_	—	—	1
		<4 „			4	1	_	1	2
		< 8 „			13	1	—	5	7
		<12 „			4	_	—	2	2
		<26			10	—	1	6	3
		<20 ,, and over			3	—	—	—	3
		period not ascertained			17	10	—	—	7
Industrial work resumed after confinement within		4 weeks		92	17	4	—	2	11
		6 „			10	2	—	3	5
		8 „			8	1	—	—	2
		12 „.			2	—	—	2	—
		52			13	2	—	5	6
		not within year			32	8	—	5	19
		Period not ascertained			15	10	1	1	3
Nursed (at last visit)		by mother		92	67	25	—	—	32	257	258
		at home by other person			18	—	—	5	13	1
		put out			7	—	—	6 1	1	-
Feeding	breast alone		< 1 month	92		1	—	1	1	8	258
			< 2 months			2	—	2	8	15
			< 3 ,,			1	—	1	1	8
			<6 „			2	—	3	4	17
			6 months (and over			19	—	12	25	196
	breast partly		< 1 month			—	—	—	—	—
			< 2 months			—	—	—	—	—
			< 3 „			—	—	—	—	—
			< 6 „			—	—	—	—	1
			6 months (and over			—	—	—	—	3
	artificial entirely (from birth)					3	—	2	3	7
	feeding not ascertained					—	—	1	—	3