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The ages of the children were as follows:—Under one month, 1;
one to two months, 1; two to three months, 4; three to four months,
4; four to five months, 2; five to six months, 5; six to seven months,
2; seven to eight months, 0; eight to nine months, 3; nine to ten
months, 1; ten to eleven months, 3; eleven to twelve months, 1;
twelve to fourteen months, 4; fifteen to seventeen months, 3; eighteen
to twenty months, 3; twenty-one to twenty-three months, 4, and one
aged two years. Total 42.
Dundonald Ward.
In this Ward there were four deaths (3 males and 1 female) in
four houses.
3 children were bottle or hand fed entirely.
1 child was fed with ordinary food.
4
2 children were fed on cow's milk.
1 child was fed on condensed milk.
1 child was fed on ordinary food.
4
The ages of the children were as follows:—Six months, eleven
months, nine months and one over a year.
cottenham park ward.
In this Ward the deaths numbered two, both males, and occurred
in two houses.
One child was fed with cow's milk, barley water and rusks and
the other family had removed.
The ages of the children were as follows:—Eleven months, and
twenty-three months.
The portion of the Borough principally affected was that tinted
blue on the accompanying map,* being roughly in shape a rectangle
enclosed between Haydons Road, part of High Street, Merton, the
River Wandle from Terrier's Bridge to where the Wimbledon and
Tooting Branch of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway
crosses the river, and the railway lines to Haydons Road. Isolated
cases also occurred as shewn in several streets in both Trinity and
South Park Wards.
From the street list® and spot map* it will be seen that the
streets where the highest mortality occurred were all within this
* Included in report sent to Local Government Board and not reproduced in this
Annual Report.