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Poplar 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]

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Table: TABLE XIV.BROMLEY.Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 Deaths, during the year 1900 (52 weeks) ended 29th December, 1900, 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 XIV.

BROMLEY.

Showing Mortality from certain groups of Diseases and Proportions to 1000 of Population, and to 1000 Deaths, during the year 1900 (52 weeks) ended 29th December, 1900, 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 Population59,001
Deaths from all causes1,399
Division I. (Adults.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of population.Proportion of deaths to 1000 deaths.
1. Seven principal Zymotic Diseases2283.27159.2
2. Respiratory (other than Phthisis)3304.74230.4
3. Tubercular Diseases1742.50121.5
Division II. (Infants under one year.)Total Deaths.Deaths per 1000 of Births. (Births 2484)Deaths per 1000 of total deaths under one year (Deaths under one year 446.)
4. Wasting Diseases of Infants12349.51275.7
5. Convulsive Diseases of Infants4116.5091.9

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NOTE.
1. Includes Small Pox 0, Chicken Pox 1, Measles 28, Scarlet Fever 3, Whooping
Cough 36, Fever 18, Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) 49, Diarrhoea
91 and Simple Cholera 1, Mumps 1.
3. Includes Phthisis 127, Scrofula and Tuberculosis 3, Tubercular Meningitis
(all ages), 19, Rickets 4, and Tabes Meser.terica 21.
4. Includes Marasmus, Atrophy and Debility, 67; Want of Breast Milk, 0; and
Premature Birth, 56.
5. Includes Hydrocephalus 1, Infantile 5 and Tubercular Meningitis 1,
Convulsions 23, and Teething 11.