Report on the public health of Finsbury 1907 including annual report on factories and workshops.
- Finsbury (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
- Date:
- 1908
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: Report on the public health of Finsbury 1907 including annual report on factories and workshops. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![40 With two or three exceptions, the children were drawn from the poorest class, residing chiefly in Peerless Street, Baldwin Street, Galway Street, Radnor Street and Lever Street. Many of the fathers were out of work or in hospital or in a Poor Law Infirmary, the mothers being quite unable to contribute any regular weekly sum for the food supplied. The standard of life in this district being low, the home conditions in many cases were very unsatisfactory, but the interest of the mothers in the progress of their babies was greatly stimulated by the weekly weighing which took place in a room kindly lent by the Leysian Mission. It should be added that the progress made (average increase per week 4.6 ozs.) indicates not only that the milk itself was nourishing, but the increased care given to the babies, and in some cases the more suitable clothing which some of the mothers were induced to provide for them. In addition to the 53 infants enumerated in the foregoing table, we have particulars of 40 other children outside the boundary of the Borough who were fed on Dried Milk by Dr. Harper in the Summer of 1906. The average weekly increase of these children was 4.15 ozs. This figure is not necessarily comparable with the 4.66 ozs. recorded as the average weekly increase in the children in the above table, as no doubt the climatic conditions of 1906 were less favourable to infant life. 4. A School for Mothers.—A special effort has been made by the Lady Sanitary Inspectors to keep in touch with a number of young mothers who have been encouraged to come to weekly or fortnightly talks on the welfare of the baby, and instruction has been given on the simple rules which may be observed for keeping the baby in health. This work was separate and distinct from the work of the Depot as a school of Infant Management. These classes have been held at the Depot and at 165, Goswell Road (Social Workers' Association], in conjunction with the Health Visitor of that Association (Miss Irene Cox).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/B18106158_0040.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
