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Poplar 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar District - Bow District & Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow]
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Inquests.
Number of inquests I leduct inquests held Add inquests held Total inquests
held in the parish on non-parishioners on parishioners from belonging to
outlying districts parish
81 2 31 no
Verdict from violence Verdict from natural causes
45 65
TABLE IV.
Deaths during the year 1900 in the Bow Division of the Metropolitan
Borouch of Poplar, classified according to localities.
Names of localities adopted for the purpose of these statistics ;
public institutions being shown as separate localities.
Deaths
at all
ages.
Bow 737
Grove Hall Asylum 37
Duckett's Canal 2
River Lea 6
Total 782
Deaths occurring outside the Division among persons
belonging thereto.* 223 +
Deaths occurring within the Division among persons not
belonging thereto 35-
Deaths at all ages—nett.. 970
* Including deaths in Poplar Union Workhouse 7, Sick Asylum 105.