[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough] page 49

Poplar 1908

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

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Table: TABLE XIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OP POPLAR. Whole Borough. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

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TABLE XIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OP POPLAR. Whole Borough. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Causes of Death. (see page 43.)		Under 1 week.	l -2 weeks.	2-3 weeks.	3-4 weeks.	Total under 1 month.	1-2 months.	2-3 months. 1	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 Causes	Certified	110	30	23	26	189	69	59	48	41	41	54	35	40	40	30	28	675
All Causes	Uncertified.	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—
Small-pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chicken-pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	2
Measles		..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	1	1	4	1	1	11
Scarlet Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	1	3
Diphtheria : including Membranous Croup		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	2
Whooping Cough		..	..	..	..	..	2	6	4	2	1	4	1	1	6	9	5	41
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases:—
Diarrhœa, all forms		..	..	..	1	1	10	11	8	14	6	18	8	9	6	6	7	104
Enteritis: Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis.		..	1	1	1	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1	2	..	1	20
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh		..	1	..	..	1	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	5
iii. Wasting Diseases:—
Premature Birth		60	4	4	4	72	11	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	86
Congenital Defects		12	6	1	3	22	4	2	..	..	3	..	..	1	1	..	..	33
Injury at Birth		..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Want of Breast-milk		..	1	1	..	2	..	2	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	6
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus..		15	12	4	7	38	12	10	15	7	6	6	5	3	1	1	3	107
iv. Tuberculous Diseases:
Tuberculous Meningitis		..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	1	2	1	..	5	3	2	2	18
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica		..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	3
Other Tuberculous Diseases		..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	1	..	5
v. Other Causes
Erysipelas		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Syphilis		..	..	..	..	..	..	1	2	1	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	6
Rickets		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	3
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..		..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	2	2	4	1	..	..	1	1	12
Convulsions		..	..	2	3	11		4	1	1	3	3	1	3	..	..	2	29
Bronchitis		..	3	3	1	7	8	4	2	3	6	2	8	5	1	3	..	44
Laryngitis		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	1	..	..	..	3
Pneumonia		..	1	1	2	4	4	6	6	6	4	8	5	8	8	5	1	59
Suffocation, overlying		..	..	2	..	2	9	..	4	1	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	22
Other Causes		17	..	4	4	25	3	6	2	2	2	4	4	1	1	..	2	49
		110	30	23	26	189	69	59	48	41	41	54	35	40	41	30	28	675

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District (or Sub-division) of Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Whole Borough: —
Population, estimated to middle of 1908 170,445.
Births in Legitimate 5,3:26 Deaths in the (Legitimate infants 641
the year Illegitimate125* year of Illegitimate infants 34
Deaths from all causes at all ages 2,781
* See pages 5 and 6.

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Table: TABLE XIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OP POPLAR. Whole Borough. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1908. Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

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