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Poplar 1909

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

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TABLE XV.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Bromley Sub-District.

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. 1
All CausesCertified46101510813229231414101612191417281
Uncertified..................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—
Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox....................1..........1
Measles..........................54211
Scarlet Fever................1..............1
Diphtheria: including Membranous Croup..................................
Whooping Cough..........221..1....123416
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases :—
Diarrhœa, all forms..........1371112232427
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis............3................17
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh....1121..1....1..........5
Wasting Diseases
Premature Birth25342343....1..............38
Congenital Defects611..82............1....112
Injury at Birth..................................
Want of Breast Milk, starvation................1..............1
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus81321478434..2111..46
Tuberculous Diseases:—
Tuberculous Meningitis..........................1....1
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica............1..................1
Other Tuberculous Diseases..............2....111......5
Other Causes:—
Erysipelas..1....11........11........4
Syphilis....1..11....1..............3
Rickets............1..............1..2
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)........................1......4
Convulsions13....611212..1........14
Bronchitis..1232..14314221..23
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia1......1152..214231325
Suffocation, overlying1....23431........1......12
Other causes4..318621..1....11222 .
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District (or Sub-Division) of Metropolitan Borough of Poplar. Bromlev Sub-District

Population, estimated to middle of 190966,685.
Births in the yearLegitimate2,083Deaths in the year ofLegitimate infants262
Illegitimate32*Illegitimate infants19
Deaths from all causes at all ages1,120

* See pages 5 and 6.