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TABLE VIII.
POPLAR.
Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions
to iooo of Population, and to iooo Deaths, during the year 1898
(32 weeks) ended jist December, 1898, excluding non-Parishioners
and including deaths in outlying Institutions. Also the number
of Deaths oj Infants under one year of age from other groups of
Diseases and proportions to iooo Births, and to iooo Deaths
from all causes under one year.
Estimated Population 58,417
Deaths from all causes 1254
Division I.
(Adults.)
Total Deaths.
Deaths per iooo
of population.
Proportion of I
deaths to iooo I
deaths.
1. Seven principal Zymotic Diseases 187 3.20 149.1
2. Respiratory (other than Phthisis) 197 3.37 157.0
3. Tubercular Diseases 191 3.26 152.3
Division II.
(Infants under one year.)
Total Deaths.
Deaths per iooo
of Births.
(Births 2005)
Deaths per iooo
of total deaths
under one year
(Deaths under
one year 346).
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants 100 49.87 289.0
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants 38 18.95 109.8
NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox 0, Chicken Pox 2, Measles 34, Scarlet Fever 3, Whooping
Cough 24, Fever 12, Diphtheria 43, Diarrhoea 66 and Simple Cholera 3.
3. Includes Phthisis 135, Scrofula and Tuberculosis 8, Tubercular Meningitis
(all ages) 18, Rickets 4, and Tabes Mesenterica 26.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility 74 ; Want of Breast Milk 1; and
Premature Birth 25.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus 0, Infantile 5 and Tubercular Meningitis 6,
Convulsions 19, and Teething, 8.
B