London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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

Poplar 1897

Annual report, year 1897, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE VIII. POPLAR. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1ooo of Population, and to 1ooo Deaths, during the year 1897 ended 1st January, 1898, 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 1ooo Births, and to 1ooo Deaths from all causes under one year.

TABLE VIII. POPLAR. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1ooo of Population, and to 1ooo Deaths, during the year 1897 ended 1st January, 1898, 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 1ooo Births, and to 1ooo Deaths from all causes under one year.

Division I. (Adults.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1ooo of population.Proportion of deaths to 1000 deaths.
1. Seven principal Zymotic Diseases1783.06144.7
2. Respiratory (other than Phthisis)2103.61170.7
3. Tubercular Diseases1692.90137.3
Division II. (Infants under one year.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Births. (Births 1912)Deaths per 1000 of total deaths under one year (Deaths under-one year 330).
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants10253.34309.0
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants3518.30106.0

Text

Copy text to clipboard

NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Fever,
Diphtheria, Diarrhoea and English Cholera.
3. Includes Phthisis, 123; Scrofula and Tuberculosis, 6; Tubercular Meningitis
(all ages) 13 ; Rickets, 7; and Tabes Mesenterica, 20.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, 69; Want of Breast Milk, 1; and
Premature Birth, 32.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, 4; Infantile, 7, and Tubercular Meningitis, 4;
Convulsions, 14; and Teething, 6.