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Poplar 1905

[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 1905.

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TABLE IX.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Parish of Poplar. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1905.

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.	Poplar Hospital.	Blackball Sick Asyl'm		See Footnotes	Outlying Institutions	Total Deaths in Public Institutions,' &c.
Small-pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Measles		34	6	28	..	..	..	..	..	7	..	..	..	..	..	7
Scarlet fever		5	..	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	5
Whooping-cough		29	14	15	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	3	5
Diphtheria and membranous croup		6	1	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	5
Croup		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fever	Typhus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric	3	..	..	2	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1
	Other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic influenza		3	..	..	..	..	1	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa		52	36	12	1	..	..	3	1	5	..	..	..	..	3	9
Enteritis		13	6	2	..	..	1	4	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	2
Puerperal fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Erysipelas		3	1	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	2
Other septic diseases		1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1
Phthisis		166	6	11	4	12	73	..	..	28	1	..	..	..	10	39
Other tubercular diseases.		28	8	9	5	..	6	..	..	3	1	..	..	..	3	7
Cancer, malignant disease		41	..	1	..	..	28	12	..	15	..	..	..	..	6	21
Bronchitis		117	21	12	1	..	40	43	10	29	..	..	..	1*	4	44
Pneumonia		78	20	90	2	2	28	6	..	14	1	..	..	..	8	23
Pleurisy		3	..	1	..	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Other diseases of Respiratory organs		12	10	..	..	..	2	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	1	3
Alcoholism		14	..	..	..	..	11	3	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	4
Cirrhosis of liver		14	..	..	..	..	11	3	1	2	1	..	..	..	..	4
Venereal diseases .		2	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Premature birth		45	45	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Diseases & accidents of parturition .		1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Heart diseases		92	1	1	4	7	51	28	4	17	3	..	..	2†	16	42
Accidents		60	12	7	3	6	21	11	3	6	7	..	..	10‡	8	34
Suicides		6	..	..	..	1	5	..	..	..	1	..	..	1**	1	3
Murder		1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
All other causes		322	86	26	12	5	85	108	17	42	7	2	..	..	60	128
All causes		1077	274	156	34	33	359	221	38	170	24	3	..	14	139	388

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Poplar 1905

Table: TABLE IX.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Parish of Poplar. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during Year 1905.

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