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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 XII. Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coining to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the last three Quarters of the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar (bromley), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

TABLE XII. Table of Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coining to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the last three Quarters of the year 1893, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar (bromley), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

(a) Localities.Bromley.Sick Asylum.City of London InfirmaryStepney Union WorkhousePoplar Hospital.Totals.
Population at all Ages—
(b) Census 189170,002............70,002
(c) Estimated to middle of 189371,336............71,336
(d) Registered Births1,8204...12...1836
New Cases of Infectious Sickness in each Locality coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Hialth.
Diseases.BromleySick AsylumCity of London InfirmaryStepney Union WorkhousePoplar HospitalTotals.
un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5OV. tun. 5ov 5
Smallpox19,84110.........4......1398
Scarlatina939521...1...1.........1239524
Diphtheria96252...1..................96253
Membranous Croup143........................143
Fevers.Typhus...1...........................1
Enteric or Typhoid19185...3..................19188
Continued717........................717
Relapsing..........................................
Puerperal...2...........................2
Cholera....................................
Erysipelas14151...22...5............14178
Number of such cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Diseases.BromleySick AsylumStepney Union WorkhousePoplar Hospital.Totals.
un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5
Smallpox1165110...4......1279
Scarlatina43112...1.........143114
Diphtheria1126...1............1127
Membranous Croup..............................
FeversTyphus..............................
Enteric or Typhoid236...3............239
Continued..............................
Relapsing..............................
Puerperal..............................
Cholera..............................
Erysipelas..............................