[Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City.

  • Leeds City Council
Date:
1906
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Credit: [Report 1906] / Medical Officer of Health, Leeds City. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the third month of life comparatively few of the cases registered during these six months were visited for the first time. They amounted only to 14, but of the 14, 11 were being fed entirely by their mothers, 2 were not so fed, and the fourteenth was a child who had been entirely fed by the mother up to the end of the second month, but partially weaned some¬ where in the third. During the third month of life 5 children were visited a second time. Of these, 4 were found to be still receiving only their mothers’ milk, and 1, which had been visited in the second month, was found as on the previous occasion to be still receiving artificial food. During the fourth month of their lives 2 children were o visited for the first time, and both were found to be getting only their mothers’ milk, while 26 were visited who had been seen before. Of these 17 were reported to be only receiving breast milk. Of the remaining 9, 6 are included in those already mentioned as having been found at the first visit more or less artificially fed. From these figures, which deal entirely with infants whose births were registered during the six earlier months of 1905, all cases have been excluded in which we know that the child has since died ; so that the statistics just given deal chiefly with children born from 20 to 24 months ago, all of whom, so far as we know, are at present alive. Fatal cases ;—when weaned.—During the first two quarters of 190c;, 647 births were registered in the South-East district Information has already been given as to those who were not known to be dead at the time of writing. One hundred and sixty are reported to us as having died during the interval. Of these, as to 5 we have no information as to the mode of feeding, further than that one of them was fed at the breast at the date of our visit in the second month of life, and afterwards died away from the district, but we do not know at what age. Two others died, one in the fourth week and one in the second