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Poplar 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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It was suggested the Council should support an appeal to the
Government for an enquiry as suggested. It was pointed out the
facilities for treatment of in patients are quite inadequate, and
could be probably largely developed in existing hospitals if the
desirability of such development could be shown. The Committee
recommended the Council to support an appeal to the Government
for an enquiry as proposed.
TABLE I.
| Names of localities adopted for the purpose of these statistics; public institutions being shown as separate localities. | Deaths at all ages. |
| Poplar | 679 |
| Sick Asylum, Blackwall | 10 |
| Poplar Union Workhouse | 65 |
| Montreal Buildings | 4 |
| Grosvenor Buildings | 32 |
| H anbury Buildings | 3 |
| Council Buildings | 3 |
| Prestage Buildings | 1 |
| Millwall Docks | 3 |
| West India Docks | 4 |
| South-West India Dock | 3 |
| Railway Dock | 1 |
| Liinehouse Cut | 1 |
| River Thames | 17 |
| Highway | 2 |
| At Sea in the s/s "Galirian," arriving in East India Docks | 1 |
| Total | 829 |
| Daaths occurring outside the division among persons belonging thereto* | 342 + |
| Deaths occurring within the division among persons not belonging thereto | 57— |
| Deaths at all ages—nett | 1114 |
* Including 212 deaths in the Bromley parish:—Sick Asylum, 188; Poplar
Hospital, 24.