[Report 1909] / Medical Officer of Health, Batley Borough.

Batley (England). Borough Council.

Date:: 1909

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of age). (a) Pneumonia age G (b) Diarrhma 6 (c) Convulsion.s 8 (d) Still-born (e) Croup 7 No. (42). 3 children, all dead. (a) Pneumonia age 10 (b) Pneumonia 6 (c) Broncho-pneumonia 8 No. (68). 5 children, all dead. iilother died recently of Pneumonia. (a) Wasting age 6 (b) Wasting 3 (c) Wasting 3 (d) Wasting 1 (e) Premature birth. months. months. weeks. months. months. months. months. months. months. weeks. week. No. (80). 4 children, all dead. Mothei goes out to work. (a) Consumption (b) Consumption (c) Consumption (d) Acute Bronchitis age 2 months. 11 months. 4 months. 1 month. The above are taken as examples of the worst family histories in last year's returns. On the other hand, by referring to the Register of Births, I find that numerous examples could be cited of mothers who have reared large families with only one or perhaps no deaths in infancy, and several of these live in the same street as some of the above, are under similar sanitary con- ditions and have about the same weekly income to live upon. In seeking some ex[)lanation of these facts and in (rying to trace these deaths to their ultimate causes, it would aj){)ear that to a large extent the determining factor is the mother lU