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Poplar 1909

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

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TABLE XIII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OP POPLAR.

Whole Bobough.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1909.

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 CausesCertified1222535212037453553535293537383838670
Uncertified..................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—
Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox....................1..........1
Measles..................1..22810831
Scarlet Fever................1..........113
Diphtheria: including Membranous Croup..............................11
Whooping Cough..........323..311635532
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases:—..................................
Diarrhœa. all forms....1..136118433566561
Enteritis: Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis.............3221..2..1..112
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh....1121111..........6
iii. Wastinq Diseases :—
Premature Birth67685867..11..............95
Congenital Defects21631315..1........1....139
Injury at Birth..................................
Want of Breast-milk........21111..............6
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1461173818181457673222122
iv. Tuberculous Diseases:
Tuberculous Meningitis................1..22..2..18
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica............1..................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases............1211122..1..11
v. Other Causes:—
Erysipelas..1....11........11........4
Syphilis....1..121..1..1..........6
Rickets............1............11..3
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..............2111..2......7
Convulsions532..10433231211..131
Bronchitis211489..46435543..51
Laryngitis..............................11
Pneumonia1......12544528677758
Suffocation, overlying21126896..2....1......32
Other Causes101611892..115..332448
1222535212037453553535293537383838670

District (or Sub-division) of Metropolitan Borough of Poplar. Whole Borough : —

Population, estimated to middle of 1909170,688.
Births in Legitimate5,031Deaths in the Legitimate infants623
the year Illegitimate107*year of Illegitimate infants47
Deaths from all causes at all ages2,802

* See pages 5 and 6.