London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Poplar 1910

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

This page requires JavaScript

TABLE XIV.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OP POPLAR.

Poplar Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during 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. 12-3 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 CausesCertified401187662491712128101111147201
Uncertified..................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—
Small-pox................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles............................213
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria: including Membranous Croup............................1..1
Whooping Cough..........31..2..22224..18
ii. Diarrheal Diseases:—
Diarrhoea, all forms..........2241..1222....16
Enteritis, Muco-enteritis and Gastro-enteritis..........11111..1........6
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh............1................12
iii. Wasting Diseases:—
Premature Birth283..2285....................33
Congenital Defects52181....1..1..........11
Injury at Birth..................................
Want of Breast Milk, starvation..2..13......................3
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus..51331231434..2223137
iv. Tuberculous Diseases:—..................................
Tuberculous Meningitis................1..111..1..5
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes Mesenterica..................1....1......2
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................................
v. Other Causes:-
Erysipelas..................................
Syphilis..........................1....1
Rickets............11........1......3
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..........................1....1
Convulsions311..5......2......1......8
Bronchitis....1124..3..211....1..14
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia......................1131215
Suffocation, overlying121..431..................8
Other causes3..1..421..112......1214
401187662491712128101111147201

District (or Sub-division) of Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Poplar Sub-District:—
Population, estimated to middle of 1910 61,103.
Births in Legitimate 1,724 Deaths in the Legitimate infants 191
the year Illegitimate 27* year of Illegitimate infants 10
Deaths from all causes at all ages 982
* See page 5.