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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 1919
Annual report for the year 1919 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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| 17 th Mar. | Poplar Hospital. | Seaman, Native of India. | Male, 40. | Violent. Fracture of skull and other injuries caused by slipping off the wooden casing of the funnel of the s.s. Field Marshall lying in the East India Docks. Acc. Inq. |
| 8th June. | Bow Creek. | Unknown. | Male, about 25. | Violent. Suffocation from drowning, but whether he was of sound mind or not there is no evidence to show. Inq. |
| 4th Ncv. | Poplar Hospital. | Seaman. Native of Japan. | Male,34. | Found dead. Heart failure due to arterio sclerosis. Nat. Inq. |