Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report, year 1899, 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.
Estimated Population | 69,618 | ||
Deaths from all causes | 1,577 | ||
Division I. (Adults.) | Total Deaths. | Deaths per 1000 of population. | Proportion of deaths to 1000 deaths. |
1. Seven principal Zymotic Diseases | 236 | 3.38 | 149.6 |
2. Respiratory (other than Phthisis) | 341 | 4.89 | 216.2 |
3. Tubercular Diseases | 182 | 2.61 | 115.4 |
Division II. (Infants under one year.) | Total Deaths. | Deaths per 1000 of Births. (Births 2482) | Deaths per 1000 of total deaths under one year (Deaths under one year 433.) |
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants | 122 | 49.95 | 281.7 |
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants | 55 | 22.15 | 127.9 |
NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox 0, Chicken Pox 0, Measles 44, Scarlet Fever 4, Whooping
Cough 40, Fever 12, Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 33, Diarrhœa
99 and Simple Cholera 4.
3. Includes Phthisis 136, Scrofula and Tuberculosis 6, Tubercular Meningitis
(all ages), 11, Rickets 3, and Tabes Mesenterica 26.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, 77; Want of Breast Milk, 0; and
Premature Birth, 45.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus 0, Infantile 4 and Tubercular Meningitis 3,
Convulsions 40, and Teething 8.