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Poplar 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE 1.Deaths during the year 1903 in the Poplar Division of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, classified according to localities.

TABLE 1.

Deaths during the year 1903 in the Poplar Division 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.
Poplar702
Sick Asylum, Blackwall2
Poplar Union Workhouse85
Toronto Buildings1
Grosvenor Buildings20
Hanbury Buildings8
Council Buildings0
East India Docks5
Millwall Docks5
West India Docks4
South-West India Dock1
Fletcher's Union Dry Dock1
Limehouse Cut1
River Thames15
Bow Creek2
Highway1
Total853

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Deaths occurring outside the division among persons
belonging thereto 336 +
Deaths occurring within the division among persons not
belonging thereto 79—
Deaths at all ages—nett 1110
* Including 189 deaths in the Bromley parish Sick Asylum, 161 ; Poplar
Hospital, 26 ; Stepney Union Workhouse, 1 ; River Lea, Bromley, 1.