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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 1897

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

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Table: TABLE IX. BROMLEY. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 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 1000 Births, and to 1000 Deaths from all causes under one year.

TABLE IX. BROMLEY. Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 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 1000 Births, and to 1000 Deaths from all causes under one year.

Estimated Popu4ation 69,759
Deaths from all causes 1,377
Division I. (Adults.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of population.Proportion of deaths to 1000 deaths.
1. Seven principal Zymotic Diseases2042.92148.1
2. Respiratory (other than Phthisis)2804.01203.3
3. Tubercular Diseases1752.50127.0
Division II. (Infants under one year.)Total Deaths.Deaths per1000 of Births. (Births 2521)Deaths per 1000 of total deaths under one year. (Deaths under one year 414.)
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants10541.65253.6
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants5823.00140.0

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NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Whooping Cough, Fever,
Diphtheria and Diarrhoea.
3. Includes Phthisis, 140; Scrofula and Tuberculosis, 1; Tubercular Meningitis
(all ages), 14; Rickets, 1; and Tabes Mesenterica, 19.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, 56 ; Want of Breast Milk, 0 ; and
Premature Birth, 49.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus, 4 ; Infantile, 7, and Tubercular Meningitis, 4 •
Convuliions, 32 ; and Teething, 11.