A special report on an infants' milk depot, established under the auspices of the Finsbury Social Workers' Association / by George Newman.

  • Finsbury (London, England). Public Health Committee.
Date:
1905
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Credit: A special report on an infants' milk depot, established under the auspices of the Finsbury Social Workers' Association / by George Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6. E L., f., born Gth April, 1905 ; began Depot milk 9th -lime ; aged two months. Mother has been in hospital several times with gastric ulcer, and a year before the birth of the baby had severe hcematemesis. Was aged 40 at the birth of this, the lirst cliild. Father, engine driver in a brewery, wages 30s, Occupy three rooms; rent 7s. Gd. Exceptionally clean and well kept. Infant— reported weight at birth lOj lbs. Had Nestlc’s milk since birth. On admission—weighed 11 lbs. and increased to IG lbs. G ozs. by November 1st. Still on the'milk. Doing excellently- Respecting this group of cases, comment is needless. These six infants represent many others who have passed through the Depot, and have done well from the heginning. As a rule tJiey have lieeii put oii the standard niodilication for their respective ages, and in comparatively few cases lias it been necessary to jiut them back on to weakei’ milks. B.— Infants loho u-hilsb taking the milk suffered from epidemic diarihcea, and the results of the attack. 7. F. M. C,, f., born 2Gth November. 1904 ; began Depot milk 28th P'ebruary, J.905; aged three months. Mother has good health. Father died of phthisis when the baby was two weeks old; four other children living and healthy. The family of live live in one large room (one is in an Orphan Home), fairly clean and tidy ; rent 4s. Gd. Not insured. Infant had had good health, no illness or diarrhoea; reported weight at birth G-i lbs. Had mother’s milk for a little over three weeks, then cow’s milk and barley water. Condition on admission—fairly well nourished; no diarrheea. Weight at first attendance 9;1 lbs. During the first eleven weeks that she had the milk she did well, gaining 2^ lbs. Then she gradually took less milk, and was occasionally sick, with short attacks of diarrhoea. She also began to waste. The diarrhoea was never continuous, but recurred repeatedly. The child was therefore put on a lower modification of milk, combined with medicinal treatment by a medical practitioner. During her illness the child was always very languid, and took hardly any milk, till, in September, she onlj' weighed what she did at the start (9;] lbs.). She was still kept on a very dilute milk. At last she began to improve, the diarrhoea and sickness ceased entirely, and she is now taking all the milk well, is bright and contenled, and rapidity gaining weight, ff'ce Chart B.)