Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Walthamstow]
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The detailed findings at first visits paid during 1943 are given in the following table, from which it will be seen that of 1721 children, 1400, or 81.3%, were breast-fed on first being visited, and 14, or .81%, had no separate sleeping accommodation:-
Waard. | How Fed | Sleeping Accommodation | Condition of Baby . | Accommodation | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Breast | Breast and Hand | Hand | With Mother | Cot or Cradle | Good | Fair | Bad | Whole House | Flat | Half-House | 3 Rooms | 2 Rooms | 1 Room | |
St.James Street | 167 | 29 | 16 | -- | 212 | 165 | | 43 | 4 | 82 | 46 | 44 | 4 | 2 | 34 |
High Street | 155 | 13 | 31 | 1 | 198 | 186 | 12 | 1 | 74 | 114 | 9 | - | - | 2 |
Hoe Street | 227 | 53 | 11 | - | 291 | 245 | 44 | 2 | 121 | 96 | 61 | 3 | 10 | - |
Wood Street | 164 | 21 | 29 | - | 214 | 188 | 26 | - | 92 | 53 | 62 | 6 | 1 | - |
Hale End | 317 | 33 | 38 | 3 | 385 | 373 | 14 | 1 | 243 | 61 | 80 | 3 | 1 | |
Higham Hill | 370 | 33 | 14 | 10 | 407 | 383 | 28 | 6 | 276 | 102 | 30 | 1 | 8 | - |
Totals | 1400 | 182 | 139 | 14 | 1707 | 1540 | 167 | 14 | 888 | 472 | 286 | 14 | 24 | 37 |