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Poplar 1903

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

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

TABLE II.

Deaths during the year 1903 in the Bromley 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.Death at all ages.
Bromley932
Sick Asylum631
City of London Union Infirmary82
Stepney Union Workhouse107
Poplar Hospital106
River Lea5
Bow Creek3
Limehouse Cut2
Gas Works, Bow Common Lane1
Highway4
Total1873

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Deaths occurring outside the division among persons
belonging thereto* 174 +
Deaths occurring within the division among persons not
belonging thereto 775—
Deaths at all ages—nett 1272
* Including 34 deaths in the Poplar and Bow parishes, viz.:—Union Workhouse,
30; East India Docks, Poplar, 1; Fletcher's Dry Dock, Poplar, 1 ;
Limehouse Cut, Poplar, 1 ; Highway, Bow, in Roman Road, 1.