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Poplar 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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STATISTICS AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS.
| AREA. 2,136 acres. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The number of inhabited houses was | 24,109 | ||||
| The rateable value | £779,170 | ||||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £3,110 | ||||
| POPULATION. | |||||
| Census 1931 | 155,089 | ||||
| Registrar-General's estimate for mid.1939: | |||||
| (a) for calculation of birth rate | 131,200 | ||||
| (b) for calculation of death rate | 124,100 | ||||
| LIVE BIRTHS. | Birth rate 15.7 per 1,000 of the estimated population. | ||||
| Total. | M. | F. | |||
| Legitimate | 2,022 | 947 | 1,075 | ||
| Illegitimate | 43 | 16 | 27 | ||
| 2,065 | 963 | 1,102 | |||
| STILL BIRTHS. | Total. | M. | F. | ||
| 52 | 27 | 25 | Rate per 1,000 total births 25.1 | ||
| DEATHS. | Total | M. | F. | ||
| 1,534 | 842 | 692 | Death rate per 1,000 population (a) Crude 12.4 | ||
| (b) Adjusted by comparability factor 13.7 | |||||
DEATHS FROM PUERPERAL CAUSES.
puerperal sepsis 2 ) Rate per 1,000 total births 2.42
Other puerperal causes 3 )
INFANTILE MORTALITY RATE.
All infants per 1,000 live births 31
Legitimate infants per 1,000 legitimate live births 29
Illegitimate infants per 1,000 illegitimate live births 119
CLASSIFICATION OF DEATHS.
The causes of deaths were as follows:- typhoid and paratyphoid
fevers 0, measles 1, scarlet fever 0, whooping cough 4, diphtheria 5,
influenza 29, encephalitis lethargica Q, cerebrospinal fever 1,
tuberculosis of respiratory system 92, other tuberculous diseases 3,
syphilis 0, general paralysis of the insane 5, cancer 231, diabetes 15,
cerebral haemorrhage 52, heart disease 526, aneurysm 12, other circulatory
diseases 75, bronchitis'76, pneumonia 88, other respiratory diseases 8,
peptic ulcer 23, diarrhoea 13, appendicitis 8, cirrhosis of liver 3,
other diseases of liver 8, other digestive diseases 16, acute and chronic
nephritis 18, puerperal sepsis 2, other puerperal crises 3, congenital
debility, premature birth, malformations, etc. 30, senility 14, suicide 1
other violence 54, other defined diseases 102, causes ill-defined or
unknown 0. Total deaths 1534.