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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 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]

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Table: TABLE I.Deaths during the year1900,in thePoplarDivision of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, classified according to localities.

TABLE I.

Deaths during the year1900,in thePoplarDivision of the Metropolitan Borough 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.
Poplar937
Poplar Union Workhouse68
Grosvenor Buildings22
Hanbury Buildings5
Millwall Docks9
West India Docks6
East India Docks3
Collier Dock1
Poplar Dock1
Limehouse Cut1
River Thames16
Board of Trade Offices1
Police Station East India Dock Road1
H.M.S. "President," South West India Dock1
Highway1
Ground of Christ Church1
Total1074
Deaths occurring outside the division among persons belonging thereto*383 +
Deaths occurring within the division among persons not belonging thereto58-
Deaths at all ages—nett1399

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*Including 210 deaths in the Bromley parish:—Sick Asylum 181, Poplar
Hospital 28, Limehouse Cut 1.