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Poplar 1906

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

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

TABLE XVI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bow 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 CausesCertified25794452121181423107131389202
Uncertified...................................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:— Small-pox...................................................
Chicken-pox...................................................
Measles..............................1...............1
Scarlet Fever...................................................
Diphtheria: Croup...............1...1........................2
Whooping Cough............1...11...1.........2...6
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases:— Diarrœa, all forms.........1138731054661559
Enteritis*...............1131111......9
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh...................................................
iii. Wasting Diseases:— Premature Birth12...3...151..............................16
Congenital Defects3......14...1...........................5
Injury at Birth...................................................
Want of Breast Milk, starvation............1..............................1
Atrophy, Debility Marasmus3...2...742432...11.........24
iv. Tuberculous Diseases:— Tuberculous Meningitis...................................................
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................11............1...1...4
Other Tuberculous Diseases...........................1..................1
v. Other Causes:— Erysipelas......1...1.................................1
Syphilis...1......1.................................1
Rickets....................................11......2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)................................................3
Convulsions221...514...1............11...13
Bronchitis1.........132......3......1......111
Laryngitis1.........1.................................1
Pneumonia...............212...311221217
Suffocation, overlying3......14112111...............11
Other causes...21143......12.........12114
25794452121181423107181389202

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• Including Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis.
District of Poplar: Bow Parish:—
Population, estimated to middle of 1906 42,740.
Births in
the year
Legitimate 1,337
Illegitimate 25
Deaths in the
year of
Legitimate infants 197
Illegitimate infants 5
Deaths from all Causes at all ages 705