Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report on the sanitary condition of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District with vital statistics]
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TABLE III. Classification of Cause of Death (last three quarters of the year 1893). POPLAR.
Miasmatic Diseases | 102 |
Influenza | 4 |
Diarrhœal | 52 |
English Cholera | 1 |
Malaria | 0 |
Zoogenous | 0 |
Venereal | 2 |
Septic | 16 |
Parasitic Diseases | 3 |
Privation and Alcoholism | 6 |
Constitutional Diseases | 176 |
Developmental Diseases | 76 |
Diseases of Nervous System | 109 |
Diseases of Organs of Special Sense | 4 |
Diseases of Circulatory System | 51 |
Diseases of Respiratory System | 188 |
Diseases of Digestive System | 66 |
Diseases of Lymphatic System | 0 |
Diseases of Gland-like Organs of Uncertain Use | 0 |
Diseases of Urinary System | 21 |
Diseases of Organs of Generation | 2 |
Accidents of Childbirth | 5 |
Diseases of Bones and Joints | 4 |
Diseases of Integumentary System | 4 |
Accident or Negligence | 37 |
Homicide | 1 |
Suicide | 3 |
Sunstroke | 0 |
Ill-Defined and not Specified Causes | 67 |
Total | 1000 |