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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 1898

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the North District, comprising the Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow

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Table: Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1898, in the BOW Division of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities. Table B.

Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health during the year 1898, in the BOW Division of the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities. Table B.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics ; Public Institutions being shewn as separate localities.Parish of St. Mary Stratford, Bow.Grove Hall Lunatic Asylum.Total.
Population at all Ages—
Last Census (1896)41,687...41,687
Estimated to middle of 189842,080(452)42,532
Registered Births1,346...1,346

Table: New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.

New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.

Diseases.Parish of Bow.Grove Hall Asylum.Harley House.Totals.
un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5
Smallpox........................
Scarlatina3175............3175
Diphtheria2946............2946
MembranousCroup...1...............1
Fevers.Typhus........................
Enteric or Typhoid137............137
Continued........................
Relapsing........................
Puerperal...3...............3
Cholera........................
Erysipelas244............244

Table: Number of such Cases returned from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.

Number of such Cases returned from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.

Diseases.Parish of Bow.Grove Hall Asylum.Harley House.Totals.
un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5
Smallpox........................
Scarlatina1259............1259
Diphtheria1829............1829
MembranousCroup........................
Fevers.Typhus........................
Enteric or Typhoid126............126
Continued........................
Relapsing........................
Puerperal...1...............1
Cholera........................
Erysipelas...5...............5