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Poplar 1910

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

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TABLE XIII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Whole Borough.

Infantile Mortality fairing the Year 1910.

Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

Causes of Death. (see page 55.)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.111-12 months.Total Deaths under 1 year.
All CausesCertified1223032222066745 484838312524263216606
Uncertified............1................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—
Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles..........1........1......316
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria: including Membranous Croup................................1
Whooping Cough....1..16613256324241
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases:—................................
Diarrhoea, all forms....1..126104313661..43
Enteritis: Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis.....1124163322....1125
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..........12....1..........15
iii. Wasting Diseases:—
Premature Birth761274998..1................108
Congenital Defects12424223134..1....1....35
Injurv at Birth3......3......................3
Want of Breast-milk..2..24......................4
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus1038728121110118333553102
iv. Tuberculous Diseases:
Tuberculous Meningitis Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes..........1..11131121..12
Mesenterica..................11..1......3
Other Tuberculous Diseases..........1..1..12......117
v. Other Causes:—
Erysipelas....1..1......................1
Syphilis............1............1....2
Rickets............11........2......4
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)....................11..2....4
Convulsion932..1446131....1..1..31
Bronchitis....2241025853211546
Laryngitis..................................
Pneminia..13155363946555460
Suffocation, overlying231176322..1..........21
Other Causes1023..1532..6331114342
1223032222066745484838312524263216606

District (or Sub-division) of Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Whole Borough:-
Population, estimated to middle of 1910 170,931.
Births in Legitimate 4,998 Deaths in the Legitimate infants 583
the year Illegitimate 78* year of Illegitimate infants 23
Deaths from all causes at all ages 2,615
* See pages 5 and 6.