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Poplar 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE XIV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar Parish. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1906. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Causes of Death, (see page 35.)Under 1 weok.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 1 month.1-2 months.2-3 months.3-4 months.4-5 months.5-6 months.6-7 months.7-8 months.8-9 months.9-10 months.10-11 months.11-12 months.Total Deaths under 1 year.
All CausesCertified39111313762929181226ii2321171714293
Uncertified..................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—
Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles..................11821311
Scarlet Fever................................
Diphtheria: Croup......................1........1
Whooping Cough..............113422....215
ii. Diarrhceal Diseases:—......
Diarrhoea, all forms......1139U51216346664
Enteritis*............11........9......4
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..1....1......................1
ivi. Wasting Diseases:—
Premature Birth2355235211................39
Congenital Defects421741..................12
Injury at Birth..................................
Want of Breast Milk, starvation..1....11....................2
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus61431458122..2212140
iv. Tuberculous Diseases:—
Tuberculous Meningitis..............1......2..1....4
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..........1..........1..1....3
Other Tuberculous Diseases ..........................2..2..4
v. Other Causes:—............................
Erysipelas......11......................1
Syphilis....1..1......................1
Rickets....................1..1....13
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..............1....111..22..8
Convulsions31217131211..21....19
Bronchitis..........6122213211122
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia..........22....112231..14
Suffocation, overlying1......1111................4
Other causes..1473J1..312..12..21
39111313762929IS1226112321171714293

*Including Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis.
District of Poplar : Poplar Parish:—
PoDulation. estimated to middle of 1906 59.935.
Births in
the year
Legitimate 1,820
Illegitimate 40
Deaths in the
year of
Legitimate infants 282
Illegitimate infants 11
Deaths from all causes at all ages 1,068