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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Poplar 1913

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

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Table: TABLE XIV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Whole Borough. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1913. Nett Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One-Year of Age.

TABLE XIV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Whole Borough. Infantile Mortality during the Year 1913. Nett Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One-Year of Age.

Causes of Death (see page 64).Under 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 1 month.1-3 months.3-0 months.6-9 months.9-12 months.Nett total Deaths under 1 year.
All causesCertified1113122291931151039482587
Uncertified.....................1...1
Small Pox..............................
Chicken Pox.....................1...1
Measles...1...1......2710
Scarlet Fever..............................
Whooping Cough............1145510
Diphtheria and Croup......1...11...237
Erysipelas ..................11......2
Tuberculous Meningitis...............1...539
Abdominal Tuberculosis..................2...35.
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................2...13
Meningitis (not Tuberculous)..................3339
Convulsions511...8391122
Laryngitis..............................
Bronchitis1......45885531
Pneumonia (all forms)...1...1289171052
Diarrhoea...1...341(518201169'
Enteritis...12...3151011544
Gastritis...1......1...2......3
Syphilis......1...1............1
Rickets..............................
Suffocation, overlying2...l1410...1...15
Injury at birth...............2.........2
Atelectasis10...2l13............13
Congenital Malformations1372?2522...31
Premature birth5713568192......92
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus21686413022108111
Other Causes2......3559101140
Total Deaths1113122291931151039582588

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Nett Births Legitimate 5,127*
in the year Illegitimate 81*
Nett Deaths Legitimate infants 572
in the year of Illegitimate infants 10
* See pages 4-6.