[Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City.

  • Wakefield (England). City Council.
Date:
1926
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Credit: [Report 1926] / Medical Officer of Health, Wakefield City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFANT FEEDING.—Infants Born 1925. Infants bom 1925. Percentage. Wholly breast-fed for 6 months or longer 700 76-7 Wholly breast-fed for periods less than 6 months, but more than one month 75 7-9 ] Combined breast-fed and artificial : feeding for periods of six months or longer 44 4-7 1 Combined breast and artificial feeding for periods of less than six months, but more than one month 18 1-9 Artificially fed from one month or earlier 81 8-8 t . Total 918 100-0 1 ■■ ' ' - ■ - —-- — ‘ — .. — ' • —. — - I ■ -» ■ ■■ ■■ ■ SUPPLY OF MILK TO INFANTS, Etc. The Corporation continued to supply dried milk for the ;; infants and expectant and nursing mothers as empowered by the IMilk (Mothers and Children) Order, 1919, and amending Orders and bn conformity with the income scale fixed by the Corporation. All I applications for milk are carefully investigated and reviewed 1 periodically. On account of the abnormal amount of unemploy¬ ment during the year there was a very great increase in the appli¬ cations for milk from necessitous families, but the Corporation made ra supplementary grant which permitted the supply to be continued ; bo all necessitous cases. The quantity supplied amounted to over ^138 cwts., and was given out as follows :— Sold at Cost Price .. .. . . 4,820 lbs. Sold at Half Price . . . . . . 673 ,, Sold at Quarter Price . 827 ,, Supplied Free. . .. .. .. 9,167 ,, 15,487 „ The cost to the Corporation for dried milk given or sold at bess than cost price amounted to £679 6s. 5d. ' 71 packets of Lactogal were also given out during the year, 40 ilbeing sold at cost price, 1 at half price, and 30 given free.