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Poplar 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE II. BIRTH RATES, CIVILIAN DEATH RATES, ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY, MATERNAL MORTALITY AND CASE RATES FOR CERTAIN INFECTIOUS DISEASES IN THE YEAR 1949. (Provisional figures based on Weekly and Quarterly Returns.)
| England and Wales | 126 C.B.'s and Great Towns inc. London | 148 Smaller Towns. (Resident Population 25,000-50,000 1931) | London Administrative County | |
| Rates per 1,000 Civilian Population. | ||||
| Births :— | ||||
| Live Births | 16.7(a) | 18.7 | 18.0 | 18.5 |
| Still Births | 0.39(a) | 0.47 | 0.40 | 0.37 |
| Deaths :— | ||||
| All causes | 11.7(a) | 12.5 | 11.6 | 12.2 |
| Typhoid and paratyphoid | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Whooping cough | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Diphtheria | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Tuberculosis | 0.45 | 0.52 | 0.42 | 0.52 |
| Influenza | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.14 | 0.0l |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | — | — |
| Acute poliomyelitis and polioencephalitis | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.01 |
| Pneumonia | 0.51 | 0.56 | 0.49 | 0.59 |
| Notifications (corrected) | ||||
| Typhoid fever | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Paratyphoid fever | 0.01 | 0.02 | 0.01 | 0.01 |
| Cerebro-spinal fever | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.02 | 0.02 |
| Scarlet fever | 1.63 | 1.72 | 1.83 | 1.46 |
| Whooping cough | 2.39 | 2.44 | 2.39 | 1.70 |
| Diphtheria | 0.04 | 0.05 | 0.04 | 0.07 |
| Erysipelas | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.19 | 0.17 |
| Smallpox | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Measles | 8.95 | 8.91 | 9.18 | 8.54 |
| Pneumonia | 0.80 | 0.91 | 0.65 | 0.55 |
| Acute poliomyelitis | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.12 | 0.18 |
| Acute polioencephalitis Food poisoning | 0.01 0.14 | 0.01 0.16 | 0.02 0.14 | 0.01 0.19 |
| Rates per 1,000 Live Births. | ||||
| Deaths :— | ||||
| All cases under 1 year of age | 32(b) | 37 | 30 | 29 |
| Enteritis and diarrhoea under 2 years of age | 3.0 | 3.8 | 2.4 | 17 |
| Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births. | ||||
| Notifications (corrected) Puerperal fever and pyrexia | 6.31 | 8.14 | 5.30 | 6.82 |
| (a) Rates per 1,000 total population. | (b) Per 1,000 related live births. | |||
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