[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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    Nine of the 79, still breast fed at the end of the fourth week, died during the second month as did also 9 of the 43 who were acknowledged to have been more or less artificially fed. In the third month the 60 breast fed babies were reduced to 50 and the 44 artificially fed to 40. Four of those who had been breast fed in the second month died in the third and also 10 of those who had not been completely breast fed. In the fourth month the 50 babies entirely at the breast were reduced to 42, and the 40 artificially fed to 33. Two of the 50 breast fed babies died and 13 of the 40 not entirely so nourished. In the fifth month the 42 wholly breast fed were reduced to 36, 3 having died and three going into the other group. The 33 more or less artificially fed were reduced to 29, seven of the 33 having died and 3 of the previously breast fed children having joined this group. At the sixth month 35 out of the original 155 were still being fed, so far as we know, entirely by their mothers. One died during this month. Of the 29 more or less artificially fed babies 18 survived, 11 having died during the sixth month. So far, we have shown, in regard to each week for the first four weeks, and in regard to each month for the remaining five months, how the entirely breast fed babies became fewer and fewer, and how the mortality amongst those artificially fed increased, we shall now deal only with periods of three months. The 35 remaining breast fed at the end of the sixth month fell at some time or other during the next three months to 18. Eight deaths amongst this group accounted largely for this decrease. Amongst the 18 artificially fed babies there were 6 deaths ^33 Per cent). In these three months 9 recruits joined their ranks from the entirely breast fed, leaving the number of artifici¬ ally fed babies during the sixth to the ninth month at 21 instead of 18. In the three following months the 18 breast fed babies were reduced to 8 ; 4 of them had died, 6 had been added to the group