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Inasmuch as there are a number of foreign women included 

 in this series I refer you to Table II, showing the results of the 

 observations of 221 American-born women. 



TABLE II 



BREAST FEEDING IN AMERICAN-BORN WOMEN 



No. of infants Time observed On breast Percentage 

 Months 



222 1 214 96.4 



210 2 192 91.4 



182 3 151 83.0 



162 4 124 76.0 



156 5 113 72.4 



141 6 89 63.5 



128 7 82 64.0 



115 8 73 63.6 



101 9 64 63.0 



97 10 59 60.0 



84 11 51 60.0 



72 12 41 57.0 



TABLE III 



COMPARISON OF BREAST FEEDING RESULTS IN AMERICAN AND 

 FOREIGN-BORN MOTHERS 



Breast feeding American Foreign 



Months mothers mothers 



Percentage Percentage 



1 96.4 96.9 



2 91.4 91.3 



3 83. 88.1 



4 76. 85. 



5 72. 82. 



6 63. 77. 



7 64. 74.7 



8 63. 71.1 



9 63. 70.3 



10 60. 67. 



11 60. 63. 



12 57. 64. 



From Table III you will see that there is some difference in the 

 length of time in which foreign mothers nursed their children as 

 compared with the American-born. 



