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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 Married Women and

Infant Mortality (1908).

SUMMARY.

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

II. EMPLOYMENT OF MOTHER IN RELATION TO HEALTH OF CHILD.

B.—Children dying in first year =681 Particulars not obtained.
22 Mothers industrially employed.
42 Mothers not industrially employed.
Total in case of mothers industrially employedIn case of mothers industrially employedIn case of mothers not industrially employed.
at homein factory or workshopelsewhere.
in lead.otherwise
Industrial work discontinued before confinementNot begun during this Pregnancy224In the cases of 42 deaths the mother was not industrially employed at all.
< 1 week51112
< 2 weeks11
< 3 ,,1
< 4 ,,22
< 8 ,,1
<12 ,,11
<26 ,,725
Over 26 weeks0
Period not ascertained211
Industrial work resumed after confinement within4 weeks514
6 ,,2i1
8 ,,33
12 ,,0
52 ,,312
Not within year•514
Period not ascertained422
Nursed (at last visit)at homeby mother13111103942
by other person9_36l
put out01
not ascertained0l
Feedingbreast alone< 1 month55842
< 2 months21111
< 3 ,,117
<6 ,,3122
< 6 ,, and over2110
breast partly< 1 month00
< 2 months221
< 3 „220
< 6 ,,00
(5 ,, and over0_0
artificial entirely .51137
feeding not established06