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Poplar 1898

Annual report, year 1898, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District

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TABLE IX.
BROMLEY.
Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions
to iooo of Population, and to iooo Deaths, during the year 1898
(J2 weeks) ended jist December, 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 iooo Births, and to iooo Deaths
from all causes under one year.
Estimated Population 69,689
Deaths from all causes 1,476
Division I.
(Adults.)
Total Deaths.
Deaths per iooo
of population.
Proportion of
deaths to iooo
deaths.
1. Seven principal Zymotic Diseases 298 4.27 201.8
2. Respiratory (other than Phthisis) 287 4.11 194.4
3. Tubercular Diseases 163 2.33 110.4
Division II.
(Infants under one year.)
Total Deaths.
Deaths per iooo
of Births.
(Births 2556)
Deaths per iooo
of total deaths
under one year
(Deaths under
one year 507.)
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants . . 143 55.94 282.0
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants 57 22.30 112.4
NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox 0, Chicken Pox 2, Measles 53, Scarlet Fever 13, Whooping
Cough 63, Fever 11, Diphtheria 29, Diarrhoea 124 and Simple Cholera 3.
3. Includes Phthisis 111, Scrofula and Tuberculosis 7, Tubercular Meningitis
(all ages), 12, Rickets 6, and Tabes Mesenterica 27.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, 83 ; Want of Breast Milk, 0 ; and
Premature Birth, 60.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus 2, Infantile 11 and Tubercular Meningitis 5,
Convulsions 32, and Teething 7.