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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 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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The deaths were as follows (see Table I, pages 8 and 9):—
Residents.
Outlying.
Grosvenor Buildings
*28
10
Council „
0
4
Hanbury „
2
0
30
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The registered causes of death being—
From Miasmatic Diseases 3
„ Influenza 0
„ Diarrhœa 4
„ Venereal 0
„ Septic 0
„ Constitutional Diseases 10
,, Developmental Diseases 7
From Diseases of the Nervous System 5
„ „ Circulatory 3
„ „ Respiratory 5
,, „ Digestive 1
„ „ Urinary 1
„ „ Generative 0
„ Accident of Childbirth 0
„ Disease of the Integumentary System 0
„ Accidental Deaths 1
„ Other Diseases 4
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The Institutions in which the deaths happened were—
Children's Hospital, Shadwell 1
Colney Hatch Asylum 2
Darenth Asylum 1
Friedenheim 1
Licensed Victuallers' Asylum 1
London Hospital 4
St. Thomas' Hospital 1
Sick Asylum 3
*Union Workhouse, Poplar 1
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