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Poplar 1906

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

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

TABLE XV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bromley 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 week.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 CausesCertified341599673729272421172618231622327
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..................1......1...41...1614
Scarlet Fever..................1...........................1
Diphtheria: Croup...................................................
Whooping Cough..............................21......1...4
ii. Diarrliœal Diseases:— Diarrhoea, all forms...............5611fl54126102776
Enteritis*...............31231...1......1113
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...........................1..................1
iii. Wasting Diseases:—Premature Birth22441314..............................35
Congenital Defects21141.........1............1...7
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast Milk, starvation...............11...........................2
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus413210965342221145
iv. Tuberculous Diseases:— Tuberculous Meningitis...........................1.........11...3
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica......................................................
Other Tuberculous Diseases...............1...1.........1......1...4
v. Other Causes:— Erysipelas..................1...1.....................2
Syphilis.........112........................1...4
Rickets.....................11......11.........4
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)...............1112...1.........28
Convulsions13...15222......2...132223
Bronchitis......114221......2152...329
Laryngitis...................................................
Pneumonia...11...22421121242124
Suffocation, overlying21...1423......11...............11
Other causes32162...1...112...3...117
341599673729272421172618231622327

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* Including Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis.
District of Poplar: Bromlev Parish:—
Population, estimated to middle of 1906 67,300.
Births in
the year
Legitimate 2,109
Illegitimate 32
Deaths in the
year of
Legitimate infants 310
Illegitimate infants 17
Deaths from all causes at all ages 1,218