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There are some authorities, however, who consider these cases should
be regarded as diphtheritic and hence notified.
WHOOPING COUGH.
Thirty-six deaths were registered in Poplar from whooping-cough
and 5 deaths were notified from outside the parish, making a total
of 41, and all these deaths with the exception of 1 were of children
under 5 years of age. In Bromley were registered 50 deaths under
5 years of age; but 10 of these deaths did not belong to the parish,
so that the deaths from whooping cough belonging to Bromley were
40 in number.
1893. 1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899.
Poplar 24 16 31 57 27 24 41
Bromley 32 32 29 62 24 63 40
Totals 56 48 60 119 51 87 81
INFLUENZA.
Fourteen deaths occurred in Poplar from influenza, and all these
were in persons over 5 years of age. 38 deaths happened from
the same disease in Bromley, 1 of these deaths was in a child
under 5 years of age and 1 death occurring within the parish did not
belong thereto, so that 37 Bromley parishioners died from influenza.
MEASLES.
Thirty-eight deaths from measles happened in Poplar, and one
death in an outlying institution, making a total of 39 deaths, 38 of
which were of children under five years. In Bromley 59 deaths were
registered, 12 of these deaths occurring in the Sick Asylum, also 1 in
the Stepney Union Workhouse, and 3 in the Bromley portion of the
City of London Union Infirmary; but as 15 of the 59 deaths did not
belong to the parish, the total deaths from measles belonging to
Bromley will be 44, and of this number 43 were under and 1 over
5 years of age.