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Poplar 1899

Annual report, year 1899, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District

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Table: TABLE XII.Table oF Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the (B) year 1899, 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 Firths therein during the year.

TABLE XII.

Table oF Population, Births, and of New Cases of Infectious Sickness coming to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health, during the (B) year 1899, 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 Firths 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.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.
Last Census 1896.Estimated to middle of 1899.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
Poplar57,75958,7091928Under 5146485...21............712811928......6...............54
5 upwds....93922...122......6...71386...45421...71...............159
Poplar Union Wokhouse......53Under 5......4........................4......4........................4
5 upwds....3........................710...3...........................3
Totals57,75958,7091981Under 5146525...21............713211932......6...............58
5 upwds....96922...122......6...78396...48421...71...............162

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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 case, the General Metropolitan Hospital see page 30.

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 during the year 1899 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 during the year 1899 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 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.
Last Census 1896Estimated to middle of 1899.Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Membranous Croup.Fevers.Cholera.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.
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Bromley69,82169,6182,453Under 5...72774...8............8169...32482...6...............88
5 upwds.110595......833...11...7136915755......47...............160
Sick Asylum......4Under 5......1........................1...................................
5 upwds....23.....................510...23........................5
City of London Union Infirmary*......3Under 5........................................................................
5 upwds................1...............1....................................
Stepney Union Workhouse......22Under 5........................................................................
5 upwds...............................66....................................
Totals69,82169,6182,482Under 5...72784...8............8170...32482...6...............88
5 upwds.110798......843...11...8238615958......47...............165

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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 31.
* Portion of Infirmary situated in the Bromley-by-Bow Parish,