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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 1897
Annual report, year 1897, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District
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TABLE X. POPLAR. List of Deaths of Parishioners which occurred in Public Institutions and certain Localities during the year 1897.
| Banstead Asylum | 4 | Leavesden Asylum | 4 |
| Bethnal Home Asylum | 3 | Mile End Old Town Infirmary | 1 |
| Brompton Hospital | 1 | Mothers' Home, Commercial Road | 1 |
| Brook Fever Hospital | 2 | North Eastern Fever Hospital | 1 |
| Cancer Hospital, Fulham Road | 2 | Poplar Hospital | 12 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 2 | Poplar Union Workhouse | 26 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Ormond Street | 1 | River Thames | 7 |
| St. Anne's Hospital, Stoke Newington | 1 | ||
| Children's Hospital, Shadwell | 34 | ||
| City of London Chest Hospital | 1 | St. Bartholomews Hospital | 3 |
| Claybury Asylum | 1 | St. John's Hospital, Lewisham | 1 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 6 | St. Olaves Workhouse ... | 1 |
| Dock, Regents Dry | 1 | St. Thomas' Hospital | 1 |
| Docks, Millwall | 6 | St. Vincent's Orphanage, Hamp stead | 1 |
| Docks, Poplar | 1 | ||
| Docks, Regents Canal | 1 | Salvation Army Rescue Home | 1 |
| Docks, West India | 3 | Scandinavian Sailors' Home | 2 |
| Grove Hall Asylum | 2 | Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich | 4 |
| Hanwell Asylum | 1 | Sick Asylum | 158 |
| Homerton Fever Hospital | 11 | South Eastern Fever Hospital | 4 |
| Hospital for Women, Euston Road | 1 | South Grove Workhouse | 1 |
| Hoxton House Asylum | 1 | South Western Fever Hospital | 1 |
| Ilford Asylum | 9 | Whitechapel Infirmary | 1 |
| Kings College Hospital | 1 | ||
| London Hospital | 30 | 358 | |
| London Temperance Hospital | 1 |
TABLE XI. BROMLEY. List of Deaths of Parishioners which occurred in Public Institutions and certain Localities during the year 1897.
| Banstead Asylum | 5 | Kings College Hospital | 1 |
| Bethnal House Asylum | 1 | Lambeth Infirmary | 1 |
| Bow Police Station | 2 | Leavesden Asylum | 8 |
| Brook Fever Hospital | 2 | Limehouse Cut | 8 |
| Cancer Hospital, Chelsea | 2 | London Hospital | 53 |
| Cane Hill Asylum | 1 | Metropolitan Hospital | 1 |
| Caterham Asylum | 3 | Mile End Old Town Infirmary | 1 |
| Charing Cross Hospital | 2 | Middlesex Hospital | 1 |
| Children's Hospital, Great Or-mond Street | 1 | Mildmay Hospital | 1 |
| North Western Fever Hospital | 1 | ||
| Children's Hospital, Shadwell | 23 | Poplar Highway | 1 |
| City of London Chest Hospital | 2 | Poplar Hospital | 12 |
| Colney Hatch Asylum | 3 | Poplar Recreation Ground | 1 |
| Darenth Asylum | 2 | Poplar Union Workhouse | 12 |
| Docks, East India | 1 | River Lea | 3 |
| Dock, "Russia" Rotherhithe | 1 | River Thames | 2 |
| Euston Railway Station, L. N. W. | 1 | Royal Chest Hospital | 1 |
| German Hospital | 1 | St. Bartholomew's Hospital | 3 |
| Grove Hall Asylum | 1 | Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich | 1 |
| Guy's Hospital | 1 | Sick Asylum | 155 |
| Hanwell Asylum | 2 | South Eastern Fever Hospital | 9 |
| H. M. Prison, Holloway | 1 | Throat Hospital, Golden Square | 1 |
| Homerton Fever Hospital | 20 | Whitechapel Infirmary | 2 |
| Homoeopathic Hospital | 1 | 371 | |
| Hostel of God | 1 | ||
| Ilford Asylum | 12 |