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Poplar 1903

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

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Table: TABLE IX.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Parish of Poplar.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1903.

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TABLE IX.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Parish of Poplar.

Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1903.

Causes of Death.	Deaths in whole Parish at subjoined Ages.							Deaths in Public Institutions and certain Localities within and outside Parish (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 Union Workhouse.	Sick Asylum.	Blackwall Sick Asyl 'm.	Stepney Union Workhouse.	Poplar Hospital.	See Footnotes.	Outlying Institutions	Total Deaths in Public Institutions, & c.
Small-pox	2	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Measles	53	11	41	1	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	1	..	..	3
Scarlet fever	8	..	4	2	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	6
Whooping-cough	28	15	13	..	..	..	..	..	4	..	..	..	..	2	6
Diphtheria and membranous croup	30	2	27	7	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	23	24
Croup	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Typhus	• •	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Enteric	4	..	1	1	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic influenza	4	..	..	..	..	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cholera	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa	46	32	13	..	..	1	..	..	3	1	..	1	..	1	6
Enteritis	14	8	4	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Puerperal fever	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Erysipelas	..	..	..	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Other septic diseases	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Phthisis	118	4	13	6	9	84	2	..	32	..	..	1		11	44
Other tubercular diseases	37	13	16	5	2	1	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	8	10
Cancer, malignant disease	44	..	..	..	..	25	19	..	15	..	..	1	..	7	23
Bronchitis	79	22	9	..	..	16	32	5	14	..	..	..	..	2	21
Pneumonia .	70	15	39	2	1	15	4	..	4	..	..	1	..	13	18
Pleurisy	8	..	2	1	1	3	1	..	..	..	..	..	1*	1	5
Other diseases of respiratory organs	8	1	2	1	1	2	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	3
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of liver	14	..	..	..	..	12	2	1	4	..	..	1	..	..	6
Venereal diseases	2	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Premature birth	29	29	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diseases & accidents of parturition	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Heart diseases	83	4	1	5	4	44	25	4	16	..	..	..	1†	11	32
Accidents	62	9	6	6	3	20	12	4	8	..	1	16	7‡	12	48
Suicides	7	..	..	..	..	5	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1
Murder	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1
All other causes	342	115	32	9	5	80	101	21	56	..	..	2	..	43	122
All causes	1110	282	224	47	29	324	204	37	161	1	1	26	9	147	382

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Table: TABLE IX.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Parish of Poplar.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1903.

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