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Poplar 1904

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

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Table: TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. The Borough. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1904.

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TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. The Borough. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1904.

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 Union Workhouse.	Sick Asylum.	Poplar Hospil al.	Grove Hall.	Sick Asyl'm Black wall	See . Footnotes.	Outlying Institution.;	Total Deaths in Public Institutions &.c.
Small-pox		3	..	1	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	3
Measles		90	22	66	2	..	..	..	..	8	..	..	..	..	5	13
Scarlet fever		24	2	16	5	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	21	21
Whooping Cough		75	33	42	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	5	7
Diphtheria and mem -branous croup		82	9	53	19	1	..	..	..	1	3	..	..	..	59	63
Croup		6	..	5	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fever	Typhus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric	13	..	..	2	5	6	..		1	1	..	..	..	7	9
	Other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic Influenza		18	..	..	..	1	12	5	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	3
Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa		250	174	62	3	..	6	5	1	25	1	..	1	..	11	39
Enteritis		61	36	6	4	..	11	4	1	8	1	..	..	..	2	12
Puerperal Fever		5	..	..	..	2	3	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1
Erysipelas		6	3	..	..	..	3	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	3
Other septic diseases		5	1	2	..	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	2
Phthisis		317	10	16	21	58	206	6	..	119	4	..	3	..	28	154
Other tubercular diseases		53	16	20	12	3	2	..	..	7	..	..	1	..	10	18
Cancer, malignant disease		121	..	2	..	2	88	29	..	41	2	..	..	..	24	67
Bronchitis		321	60	36	. 2	3	114	106	13	53	2	1	..	11	7	77
Pneumonia		230	55	77	13	6	66	13	..	14	4	..	..	..	37	55
Pleurisy		12	2	..	..	..	8	2	..	..	..1	..	..	..	1	2
Other diseases of respiratory organs		35	20	1	1	..	11	2	2	2	..	..	..	..	4	8
Alcoholism 1 Cirrhosis of liver		44	..	..	..	..	41	3	1	9	..	..	..	..	3	13
Venereal diseases		2	2	..	..	..	..	..	....	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Premature birth		108	108	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	3	3
Diseases and accidents of parturition		6	..	..	..	3	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Heart diseases		249	8	1	12	10	139	79	7	55	..	..	..	3†	29	94
Accidents		145	40	18	9	4	54	20	1	16	15	..	..	17‡	30	79
Suicides		12	..	..	..	1	11	..	..	1	1	..	..	12	1	4
Heat Apoplexy		1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Rotheln		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Chicken-pox		1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1
All other causes		858	245	68	22	35	246	242	31	142	16	..	3	..	119	311
All causes		3154	847	493	128	135	1035	516	59	509	52	1	8	22	412	106.3

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Table: TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. The Borough. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1904.

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