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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 1920

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

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Table: TABLE XIII.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Whole Borough.Infantile Mortality during the Year 1920. Nett Deaths from stated Causes in Weeks and Months under One Year of Age.

TABLE XIII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Whole Borough.

Infantile Mortality during the Year 1920.

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

Causes of Death (see page 27).Under 1 week.1-2 weeks.2-3 weeks.3-4 weeks.Total under 1 month.1-3 months.3-6 months.6-9 months.9-12 months.Nett total Deaths under 1 year.
All causesCertified10417251916593815751447
Uncertified..............................
Small Fox..............................
Chicken Pox..............................
Measles.....................325
Scarlet Fever........................22
Whooping Cough......1...1315717
Diphtheria and Croup..................1...34
Erysipelas...............2.........2
Tuberculous Meningitis..................2147
Abdominal Tuberculosis..............................
Other Tuberculous Diseases..................4138
Meningitis (not Tuberculous).........11...2216
Convulsions4...31814......13
Laryngitis..............................
Bronchitis...332811118644
Pneumonia (all forms)...12141216181161
Diarrhoea...............47516
Enteritis.........118105226
Gastritis...............211...4
Syphilis...............1.........1
Rickets........................11
Suffocation, overlying1.........11.........2
Injury at birth..............................
Atelectasis777
Congenital Malformations42311073...121
Premature birth628978613.........99
Atrophy, Debility and Marasmus183432821143268
Other Causes8......210755633
Total Deaths10417251916593815751447

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Nett Births
in the year
Legitimate 5,347*
Illegitimate 123*
Nett Deaths
in the year of
Legitimate infants 412
Illegitimate infants 35
Medical Officer of Health's figures—Legitimate, 5,323; Illegitimate, 134; total, 5,457.
* Registrar-General.