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Poplar 1894

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 XI.(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 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District ofPoplar (POPLAR), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

TABLE XI.(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 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District ofPoplar (POPLAR), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Knowledge of the MedicalLocality, coming to the Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1894.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Total.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.FeversCholera.Erysipelas.Total.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)123456789101112123456789101112
Poplar5,631757,2261832Under 54793613...9............1015131438...9...............30
5 upwds.2215192......602...4...1074382143610...21...............101
Poplar Union Workhouse......75Under 5...3........................14...3...........................3
5 upwds....6.........3...........716...6.........2...............8
Totals5631757,2261907Under 54823813...9............1115531738...2...............33
5 upwds.2215792......632...4...1144542149610...23...............109
"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since October 31st, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals are the Hospitals of the Metopolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally for Typhoid Fever cases the General Metropolitan Hospitals, see page 30.

Table: TABLE XII.(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 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of poplar (BROMLEY), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

TABLE XII.(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 1894, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of poplar (BROMLEY), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registered Births.Aged under 5 or over 5.New Cases of Sickness in each Locality, coming to the Knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.Number of such Cases Removed from their Homes in the several Localities for Treatment in Isolation Hospital.
Census 1891.Estimated to middle of 1894.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.FeversCholera.Erysipelas.Total.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Total.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)12345678...101112123456789101112
Bromley70,00272,0262516Under 541146720...95.........18237428162...4...............54
5 upwds.422101835...705...2...113630369326......39...............194
Sick Asylum......2Under 5........................................................................
5 upwds.21.........5............152321.........4...............7
City of London Infirmary......6Under 5...1...........................1....................................
5 upwds...............................11....................................
Stepney Union Workhouse......16Under 5........................................................................
5 upwds.1.....................1...461..............................1
Poplar Hospital.........Under 5...22........................4...2...........................2
5 upwds....3.....................25...3...........................3
Totals70,00272,0262540Under 54117692095.........18242430162....4...............56
5 upwds.452141835755...3...135665399726......43...............205

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"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District since October 31st, 1889. The Isolation Hospitals are the Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally for Typhoid Fever cases the General Metropolitan Hospitals, see page 30.