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Penge 1909

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Penge]

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necessitous parents, I anticipate, in the future, a much
greater diminution in this Infantile Mortality.
I hope also to take such measures as will
enable us to obtain earlier knowledge of removals
into the district, and thus ensure the Health Visitor
seeing such cases.
methods of feeding the infants visited.
Breast-fed 242
Cows' Milk and Barley Water 47
Nestle's Condensed Milk 49
Partly Breast and partly hand-fed, with
either Cows' or Nestle's Milk 26
Patent Foods 12
Total 376
Notifications of Births from Medical Men 150
Notifications of Births from Midwives 32
Notifications of Births from Parents 4
Total 186
Still Births notified 3
Notification Cards received 186
Babies visited 150
Not visited 36
Not visited, by Doctor's request 9
Doctors in attendance 27
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