Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year 1919 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow
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NOTES TO TABLES VIII., IX., X., XI., XII., XIII.,
XIV., XV. & XVI.
Nomenclature of Diseases.
All "Transferable Deaths" of residents, i.e., of persons resident in
the district who have died outside it, are included with the other deaths
in columns 2-10, Tables VIII., IX., X. and XI., and Infantile MortalityTables
XIII., XIV., XV., and XVI. Transferable deaths of nonresidents,
i.e., of persons resident elsewhere in England and Wales,
who have died in the district, are in like manner excluded from these
columns. For the precise meaning of the term "transferable deaths"
see footnote to Table IV.
All deaths occurring in institutions for the sick and infirm situated
within the district, whether of residents or of non-residents, are entered in
Table XII.
All deaths certified by registered medical practitioners and all inquest
eases are classed as "Certified"; all other deaths are to be regarded
as " Uncertified."
Under the heading of "Diphtheria "and" Croup" are included ull
deaths from Croup except those certified as due to "spasmodic,"
" stridulous," " catarrhal " or " false " croup.
Under the heading of " Tuberculous Meningitis " are included deaths
from Acute Hydrocephalus.
Under the heading of "Cancer" are included deaths from
Carcinoma, Scirrhus, Epithelioma, Rodent ulcer, Sarcoma, Cancer, and
Malignant disease.
Under the heading of "Diarrhoea" and "Enteritis" are included
deaths registered as due to Epidemic diarrhoea, Epidemic enteritis,
Infective enteritis, Zymotic enteritis, Summer diarrhoea, Choleraic
diarrhoea, Cholera (other than Asiatic), Gastro-enteritis, Gastro-intestinal
catarrh, Muco-enteritis, Colitis, &c. Deaths from diarrhoea secondary
to some other well-defined disease are included under the latter.