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Poplar 1898

Annual report, year 1898, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District

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TABLE XII.

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 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar (POPLAR), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities, and showing also the population of such Locality and the Births therein during the year.

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 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar (POPLAR), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities, and showing also the population of such Locality and the Births therein during the year.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of these Statistics; Public Institutions being shown as separate localities.Population at all Ages.Registeied 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.
Lost Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 1898.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Fevers.Cholera.Erysipelas.Total.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphiheria.Membranous Croup.FeversCholera.Erysipelas.Total.
Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.Typhus.Enteric or Typhoid.Continued.Relapsing.Puerperal.
(a)(b)(c)(d)(e)(1)23456789101112123456789101112
Poplar57,75958,4171945Under 5170776...5.........9168...2432......1...............57
5 upwds.113293......61......1276366...5939......32...............130
Poplar Union Wokhouse......60Under 5...31.....................4...31.....................4
5 upwds....21......2............1520...21......1...............4
Totals57,75958,4172005Under 5173786...5............9172...2733......1...............61
5 upwds.113494......63......1291386...6140......33...............134
"Notification of Infectious Disease" has been compulsory in the District Metropolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally for Typhoid Fever cases, the since October 31st, 1889. in the Isolation Hospitals are the Hospitals of the General Metropolitan Hospitals, see page 29.

Table: TABLE XIII.(B) Table of Population. Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health duting the year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar (BROMLEY), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities, and showing also the population of such Locality and the Births therein during the year.

TABLE XIII.

(B) Table of Population. Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health duting the year 1898, in the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Poplar (BROMLEY), classified according to Diseases, Ages and Localities, and showing also the population of such Locality and the Births therein during the year.

Names of Localities adopted for the purpose of iheseStatistics; 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.
Last Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 1898.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)123456789101112123456789101112
Bromley69,82169,6892,509Under 5...1126915............9196...4527......4...............76
5 upwds.220913924b3.........61462...11768......23...............210
Sick Asylum......6Under 5........................................................................
5 upwds....21*...............36...2...........................2
Stepney Union Workhouse......39Under 5........................................................................
5 upwds...............................35...............1**...............2
Poplar Hospital......0Under 5.....................................................................
5 upwds....1...........................1.................................1
City of London Union Infirmary......2Under 5........................................................................
5 upwds.........................................................................
Totals69,82169,6892,556Under 51126915............9196...4597......4...............76
5 upwds.22131402463...1...67474212168......24...............215

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Metropolitan Asylums Board, and occasionally for Typhoid Fever cases the General Metropolitan Hospitals, see page 29.
* Member of Stall treated in Sick Asylum. ** Same Patient. ‡ London Fever Hospital.
+£ Portion of the Infirmary situated in the Bromley-by-Bow Parish.