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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 1893

[Report on the sanitary condition of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District with vital statistics]

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Table: TABLE III. Classification of Cause of Death (last three quarters of the year 1893). POPLAR.

TABLE III. Classification of Cause of Death (last three quarters of the year 1893). POPLAR.

Miasmatic Diseases102
Influenza4
Diarrhœal52
English Cholera1
Malaria0
Zoogenous0
Venereal2
Septic16
Parasitic Diseases3
Privation and Alcoholism6
Constitutional Diseases176
Developmental Diseases76
Diseases of Nervous System109
Diseases of Organs of Special Sense4
Diseases of Circulatory System51
Diseases of Respiratory System188
Diseases of Digestive System66
Diseases of Lymphatic System0
Diseases of Gland-like Organs of Uncertain Use0
Diseases of Urinary System21
Diseases of Organs of Generation2
Accidents of Childbirth5
Diseases of Bones and Joints4
Diseases of Integumentary System4
Accident or Negligence37
Homicide1
Suicide3
Sunstroke0
Ill-Defined and not Specified Causes67
Total1000