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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 1894

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 VIII. BROMLEY. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 Deaths, during the year ended 29th December, 1894, excluding non-Parishioners, and 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 under one year.

TABLE VIII. BROMLEY. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 Deaths, during the year ended 29th December, 1894, excluding non-Parishioners, and 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 under one year.

Estimated Population72,026
Deaths from all causes1,344
Division I. (Adults.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of population.Proportion of deaths to 1000 deaths.
1. Seven principal Zymotic Diseases2363.29175.5
2. Respiratory (other than Phthisis)3034.20225.4
3. Tubercular Diseases1391.92103.4
Division II. (Infants under one year.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Births. (Births 2540)Deaths per 1000 of total deaths under one year. (387)
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants12147.60312.6
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants5822.83149.8

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NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Fever,
Diphtheria, and Diarrhoea.
3. Includes Phthisis, 101; Scrofula and Tuberculosis, 25; Rickets, 4; and
Tabes, 9.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, 80; Want of Breast Milk, 1; and
Premature Birth, 40.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, 0; Infantile, 10; and Tubercular Meningitis, 3;
Convulsions, 35 ; and Teething, 10.