Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE 1.
Names of localities adopted for the purpose of these statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. | Deaths at all ages. |
---|---|
Poplar | 702 |
Sick Asylum, Blackwall | 2 |
Poplar Union Workhouse | 85 |
Toronto Buildings | 1 |
Grosvenor Buildings | 20 |
Hanbury Buildings | 8 |
Council Buildings | 0 |
East India Docks | 5 |
Millwall Docks | 5 |
West India Docks | 4 |
South-West India Dock | 1 |
Fletcher's Union Dry Dock | 1 |
Limehouse Cut | 1 |
River Thames | 15 |
Bow Creek | 2 |
Highway | 1 |
Total | 853 |
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.