[Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough.
- Chorley (England). Borough Council
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Credit: [Report 1905] / Medical Officer of Health, Chorley Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![a Table in which the Deaths under one year of age are classified under their respective causes and how many weeks or months the Infants lived. I find that out of the one-hundred and ten (110) Deaths of Infants under one, thirty-two (32) died in the first month of life, fifteen (15) in the second, twelve (12) in the third, &c., &c. Three (3) cases died from Infectious Disease, (Whooping Cough) K twenty-four (24) from Diarrhoeal Diseases ; fifty-three (53) from Wasting Diseases, one (1) from Tuberculous Disease, fourteen (14) from Diseases of Respiratory Organs, and fifteen (15) from other Causes. The large number of Infantile Deaths from Diarrhoea and Wasting Diseases is partly accounted for by the still too prevalent habit of giving young infants unsuitable food, and not as far as possible feeding them with their natural food, or when impossible with properly prepared substitutes of Cows’ Milk. Very young children are often given a taste of what is going amongst the rest of the household to the greatest detriment of their digestion and often to the endangering of their lives. I append to this Report a copy of the Table referred to. The Table F gives the ages at which Deaths of residents occurred u 1905 and also the ages of the registered Deaths during the preceding ten years. [8]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29110634_0008.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
