[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon].
- Croydon (London, England). County Borough.
- Date:
- [1915]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![16 During 1914 diarrhoea and epidemic enteritis accounted for 25 deaths of infants under one year of age, 19 others being due to enteritis or gastro-enteritis, making a total of 44 deaths from diarrhoeal diseases. A further 23 deaths at ages from one year or upwards were due to these diseases. The accompanying charts shew the seasonal distribution of the diarrhoeal deaths under one year of age, in the years 1913 and 1914. METHOD OF FEEDING. The following are the particulars as to feeding of infants during the first six months of life of children who survived, and of children who died between one week and six months old. Deaths of infants under one week have been excluded because it is unlikely that methods of feeding can have been responsible for a fatal issue in so short a time. TABLE A. Infants dying from Diarrhoea] Diseases. 0-6 months. Infants dying from other than Diarrhceal Diseases. 0-6 months. Infants surviving 6 morths. Total investigated. Breast Fed only 6 52 980 1038 Breast and subsequently Cow's milk 2 11 128 141 Ditto Condensed Milk ... 5 88 93 Ditto Other foods 2 13 114 129 Breast & simultaneously Cow's Milk • • • 4 26 30 Ditto Condensed Milk ... 1 31 32 Ditto Other foods ... 9 36 45 Entirely Hand Fed — Cow s Milk ... 6 10 35 51 Ditto Condensed Milk 6 8 30 44 Ditto Other foods 5 12 38 55 Number investigated 27 125 1506 1658](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19786724_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
