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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

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the Bow 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 First Quarter of the year 1893, BROMLEY Division of the Sanitary District of Poplar; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Table of Population Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the First Quarter of the year 1893, BROMLEY Division of the Sanitary District of Poplar; classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Names of localities adoptedfor the putpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separtare localities.Parish of Bromley.Poplar andStepney Sick Asylum.Poplar Hospital.Stepney Union Work-house.City of London Union.Totals.
Population at all Ages—Say—
(b) Census 189117,000............17,000
(c) Estimated to middle of 189317,336............17,336
(d) Registered Births685............685

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

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

Diseases.Parish of Bromley.Poplar and Stepney Sick Asylum.Poplar Hospital.Stepney Union Workhouse.City of London Union.Totals.
un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5
Smallpox...1...11.........16...3...31
Scarlatina3456......1...............3556
Diphtheria824........................824
Membranous Croup2...........................2...
Fevers.Typhus....................................
Enteric or Typhoid28...1..................29
Continued23........................23
Relapsing....................................
Puerperal...1...........................1
Cholera....................................
Erysipelas618........................618

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

Number of such Cases removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospitals.

Diseases.Parish of Bromley.Poplar and Stepney Sick AsylumPoplar Hospital.Stepney Union Workhouse.City of London Union.Totals.
un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5un. 5ov. 5
Smallpox...1...11.........16...3...31
Scarlatina1117......1...............1217
Diphtheria26........................26
Membranous Croup....................................
Fevers.Typhus....................................
Enteric or Typhoid11...1..................12
Continued....................................
Relapsing....................................
Puerperal....................................
Cholera....................................
Erysipelas...1...........................1