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Poplar 1903

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

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Table: TABLE VIII.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. he Borough.

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TABLE VIII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

he Borough.

Causes of Death.	Deaths in whole Borough at subjoined Ages.							Deaths in Public Institutions and certain Localities within and outside Borough (at all ages) belonging thereto.							Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
Causes of Death.	All ages.	Under 1.	1 and under 5.	5 and under 15.	15 and under 25.	25 and under 65.	65 and upwards.	P'lar UnionWorkhouse	Sick Asylum.	Sick Asyl'n Blackwall	Stepney Union Workhouse	Poplar Hospital.	See Footnotes.	Outlying Institutions	Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
Small-pox .	2	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Measles	161	39	116	5	..	1	..	..	6	..	..	1	..	1	8
Scarlet fever	20	..	14	4	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	17	17
Whooping Cough	76	35	41	..	..	..	..	..	9	..	..	..	..	2	11
Diphtheria and mem -branous croup	58	3	40	15	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	42	43
Croup	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Typhus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Enteric	16	..	1	2	5	8	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	11	12
other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic Influenza	16	1	1	2	1	10	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cholera	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa	155	119	29	2	..	2	3	..	1,1	1	..	1	..	11	26
Enteritis	53	31	14	2	..	4	2	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	3
Puerperal fever	5	..	..	..	1	4	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	2
Erysipelas	7	3	..	..	..	2	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	2
Other septic diseases	4	..	..	1	..	3	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	2	3
Phthisis	315	5	26	20	32	226	6	1	96	..	..	2	..	42	141
Other tubercular diseases	83	36	30	11	5	1	..	..	5	..	..	..	..	17	22
Cancer, malignant disease	133	..	..	1	1	87	44	..	32	..	..	3	..	19	54
bronchitis	282	81	32	2	1	71	95	13	45	..	..	..	..	7	65
Pneumonia	210	47	77	5	3	63	15	..	24	..	..	2	..	28	54
Pleurisy	16	..	3	4	1	7	1	..	..	..	..	..	1*	7	8
Other diseases of res-piratory organs ..	23	9	3	1	1	7	2	4	1	..	..	..	..	2	7
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of liver	44	..	..	..	..	40	4	6	8	..	..	1	..	1	16
Venereal diseases	9	8	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1†	1	2
Premature birth	96	96	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Diseases and accidents of parturition	9	..	..	..	3	6	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Heart diseases	219	12	5	7	12	123	60	12	41	..	..	2	2‡	27	84
Accidents	174	47	15	13	8	57	34	10	21	..	1	21	23§	30	106
Suicides	19	..	..	..	1	12	6	1	2	..	..	..	1**	2	6
Murder	2	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	1††	..	2
Chicken-pox	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
All Other causes	868	318	84	22	22	213	209	34	112	..	..	10	1	112	269
All causes	3077	892	533	119	99	950	484	82	421	1	1	46	30	385	966

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Highway, Poplar, on an Omnibus, 1. †Highway, Bow, in Roman Road, 1. ‡Miliwall Dock, 1;
Fletcher's Dry Dock 6 River Thames. 3; Mill wall Dock, 2 ; Bow Creek, Poplar, 1; River Lea, Bromley, 4 ;
Poplar, 1; East India Dock, Poplar, 1 ; Bow Creek, Bromley, 1 ; Limehouse Cut, Bromley, 1 ; Limehouse Cut,
Poplar, 1; South West India Dock, Poplar, 1; Bromley Lock, Bromley, 1 ; Duekett's Canal, 3 ; West India Dock,
West India Dock, Poplar, 1 ; Highway, Bow, 1 ; Fairfield Road Urinal, 1. ** River Lea,
Bromley, 1. †† Cadogan Terrace, 1. Highway, Bromley*, 1.
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