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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 1918

Annual report for the year 1918 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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Table: The following deaths have been included in the Mortality Statistics of the respective Sub-districts as there is no reason for believing that such deaths will be shown in the Mortality Tables of some other District:—Poplar (Sub-District).

The following deaths have been included in the Mortality Statistics of the respective Sub-districts as there is no reason for believing that such deaths will be shown in the Mortality Tables of some other District:—

Poplar (Sub-District).

30th Mar. River Thames, off Unknown. Stewart's Docks.Male, about 10 mins.Found dead. Want of attention at birth, but under what circumstances the deceased was born and died the evidence fails to prove. Inq.
17th April. S.S. War Helmet, Ship's fireman. Millwall Docks.Male, 27.Found dead. Acute, pneumonia. Nat. P.M. Inq.
13th May. West India Docks. Ship's lamp trimmer. Native of Russir.Male, 43.Found dead. Suffocation by drowning, but how he came into the water and was so drowned, the evidence fails to prove. Inq.
18th May. Claybury Asylum. Soap cutter, of Laindon Farm Colony.Male, 63.Br. pneumonia. 8 days. P.M.
20th May. Sick Asylum. Labourer of Poplar. No fixed abode.Male, 66.Cerebral apoplexy.
15th June. River Thames, off Unknown. Perry's Oil Mills.Female, about 45.Found dead. Suffocation by drowning, but how or by what means the deceased came into the water there is no evidence to show. Inq.
17th Sept. S.S. Sardinia, Ship's steward. Green's Dry A native of Dock. India.Male, 30.Found dead. Haemorrhage following perforation of an ulcer of the stomach. Nat. P.M. Inq.
2nd. Sept. River Thames, off Steward. Perry's Wharf.Male, about 40.Found dead. Suffocation by drowning but how he came into the water and was so drowned the evidence fails to prove. Inq.

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DEATHS FROM DROWNING, ETC., AND DEATHS OF
PERSONS OF UNKNOWN ADDRESSES INCLUDED
IN THE MORTALITY STATISTICS.