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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Poplar 1893

[Report on the sanitary condition of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District with vital statistics]

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Table: TABLE V. POPLAR. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases, and Proportions to woo of Population, and to 1000 Deaths, during the last three quarters of the year ended joth December, 1893, including deaths in outlying Institutions. Also the number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases and proportions to 1000 Births and to 1000 Deaths from all causes undei one year. Estimated Population 56,634 Deaths from all causes 1000

TABLE V. POPLAR. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases, and Proportions to woo of Population, and to 1000 Deaths, during the last three quarters of the year ended joth December, 1893, including deaths in outlying Institutions. Also the number of Deaths of Infants under one year of age from other groups of Diseases and proportions to 1000 Births and to 1000 Deaths from all causes undei one year. Estimated Population 56,634 Deaths from all causes 1000

Division I. (Adults.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of population.Proportion of deaths to 1000 deaths.
1.Seven principal Zymotic Diseases1543.63154.0
2.Respiratory (other than Phthisis)1884.44188.0
3.Tubercular Diseases1132.67113.0
Division II. (Infants under one year.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Births.Deaths per 1000 of total deaths under one year.
4.Wasting Diseases of Infants7251.02264.7
5.Convulsive Diseases of Infants3424.09125.0

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NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Fever,
Diphtheria, and Diarrhœa.
3. Includes Phthisis, 60; Scrofula and Tuberculosis, 23; Rickets, 4; Tabes, 26.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, 57; Want of Breast Milk, 0; and
Premature Birth, 15.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, 1; Infantile, 8; and Tubercular Meningitis, 8;
Convulsions, 11; and Teething, 6.