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Poplar 1910

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

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TABLE XVI.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Bow Sub-District.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1910.

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

Causesof Death (seepage 55.)Under 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 1 month.l-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.TotalDeaths under 1 year.
AllCausesCertified2791175417129141143595151
Uncertified..................................
i. Common Infectious Diseases:—
Small-pox..................................
Chicken-pox..................................
Measles..................................
Scarlet Fever..................................
Diphtheria: includingMembranousCroup..................................
whooping cough..........1....1....1......14
ii. Diarrhœal Diseases:-
....1........111......1......
Enteritis, Muco-enteritisand Gastro-enteritis....1..11..22211......111
Gastritis, Gastro-intestinal Catarrh..................1............1
iii. Wasting Diseases:-
Premiture Birth20532302••..................32
CongenitalDefects21....31..12........1......
Injury atBirth..................................
Want of Breast Milk, starvation..................................
Atrophy, Debility, Marasmus.31239562321....11131
iv. Tuberculous Diseases: —
TuberculousMeningitis..................11....1....4
Tuberculous Peritonitis: Tabes..................................
Mesenterica....................1..........1
OtherTuberculousDiseases..............................12
v. Other Causes:—
Erysipelas..................................
Syphilis..................................
Rickets..................................
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)......................1........1
Convulsions..........11..............1..3
Bronchitis....1..1221311..........11
Laryngitis..................................
Pneumonia..1..142..1321114120
Suffocation, overlying......11..2..2..............7
Othercauses21....4..........1..1..2..8
279117541112914118435Q5151

District (or Sub-Division) of Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Bow Sub-District:—
Population, estimated to middle of 1910 43,357.
Births in Legitimate. 1,182 Deaths in the Legitimate infants 145
the year Illegitimate 23* year of Illegitimate infants 6
Deaths from all Causes at all ages. 604
*See page 6.