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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 1949
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE II—continued. MATERNAL MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES.
| Rates per 1,000 Total (Live and Still) Births | Rates per million women aged 15-44 | |
| Abortion with sepsis | 0.11 | 8 |
| Abortion without sepsis ... | 0.05 | 4 |
| Puerperal infections | 0.11 | — |
| Other maternal causes | 0.71 | — |