Domestic infection in relation to epidemic diarrhoea / by Arthur Newsholme.

  • Newsholme, Arthur, 1857-1943.
Date:
[1906]
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    [From THE JOURNAL OF HYGIENE, Vol. VI. No. 2, Ai-ril, 190(3.] DOMESTIC INFECTION IN DELATION TO EPIDEMIC DIARRHOEA. By ARTHUR NEWSHOLME, M.D. Medical Officer of Health off Brighton. For some years past a careful record has been kept of the method of feeding, not only of all children dying of epidemic diarrhoea, but also of all babies under one year of age in the houses of the working classes, which are visited year by year in the course of routine house-to-house inspections by the sanitary inspectors in my department. It is impossible to ask the necessary questions at every house, but in most houses information has been given without difficulty, and it may be Table I. Methods of feeding Infants under one year of age in Brighton. I.—Suckled only Ditto and farinaceous food Ditto and cow’s milk Ditto and condensed milk II.—Cow’s milk only Ditto and farinaceous food III. —Condensed milk only Ditto and farinaceous food IV. —Farinaceous food, in- cluding patent food only mentioned, or “ same food as parents” ... V.—Unknown A.—Census of 10,308 houses in house-to-house inspection in the 3 years 1903—05 Age of infants in months 0-3 3-6 6—9 9—12 271 237 186 92 14 29 41 69 5 6 7 4 3 6 7 1 12 32 28 18 4 26 33 33 6 12 10 11 2 6 10 7 4 1 2 18 — — 1 5 B.—Infants who died from Epidemic Diarrhoea in the 3 years 1903—05 Age of infants dying in months 0-3 3-6 6-9 9—12 5 3 — — 1 1 1 1 1 11 22 7 4 1 4 6 2 16 12 7 — 3 — 1 1 1 2 4 2 2