Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Parish of Bow.
Causes of Death. | Deaths in whole Parish at subjoined Ages. | Deaths in Public Institutions and certain localities within or without (at all ages) belonging thereto. | Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c. | |||||||||||||
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All ag s. | 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 Hospital. | Blackwall SickAsylum | Grove Hall | See Footnotes. | Outlying Institutions | |||
Small-pox | ||||||||||||||||
Measles | 14 | 6 | 8 | |||||||||||||
Scarlet fever | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||||
Whooping-cough | 23 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
Diphtheria and membranous croup | 18 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 16 | 17 | ||||||||||
Croup | 4 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
Fever | Typhus | |||||||||||||||
Enteric | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||
Other continued | ||||||||||||||||
Epidemic influenza | 10 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | |||||||||||
Cholera | ||||||||||||||||
Plague | ||||||||||||||||
Diarrhœa | 70 | 49 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||
Enteritis | 19 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | ||||||||||
Puerperal fever | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Erysipelas | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Other septic diseases | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Phthisis | 83 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 53 | 34 | 2 | ||||||||
Other tubercular diseases | 13 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||
Cancer, malignant disease | 30 | 1 | 26 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 14 | ||||||||
Bronchitis | 57 | 5 | 4 | 25 | 21 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 17 | |||||||
Pneumonia | 60 | 19 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 12 | ||||||
Pleurisy | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Other diseases of respiratory organs | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of liver | 15 | 15 | •• | •• | 5 | 2 | 7 | |||||||||
Venereal diseases | ||||||||||||||||
Premature birth | 30 | 30 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
Diseases & accidents of parturition | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||
Heart diseases | 68 | 2 | 4 | 29 | 31 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 24 | |||||||
Accidents | 38 | 13 | 6 | 12 | 5 | 5 | ‡3 | 10 | 18 | |||||||
Suicides | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
All other causes | 183 | 49 | 12 | 5 | 9 | 59 | 49 | 2 | 28 | 34 | 64 | |||||
All causes | 763 | 208 | 109 | 32 | 36 | 260 | 118 | 4 | 127 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 104 | 242 |
‡ River Lea, Bow, 2. Bromley Highway, 1.