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Poplar 1905

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

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Table: TABLE X.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR Parish of Bromley.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1905.

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TABLE X.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR Parish of Bromley.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1905.

Causes of Death.		Deaths in whole Parish at subjoined Ages.							Deaths in Public Institutions and certain Localities within and without Parish (at all ages) belonging thereto.						Total Deaths in Public Institution, &c.
Causes of Death.		All ages.	iUnder 1.	1 and under 5.	5 and under 15.	15 and under 25.	25 and unaer 65.	65 and upwards.	P'lar Union Workhouse.	Sick Asylum.	Poplar Hospital.	Blackwall SickAsy'm	See Footnotes.	Outlying-Institutions	Total Deaths in Public Institution, &c.
Small-pox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Measles		29	7	20	2	..	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	3
Scarlet fever		17	1	11	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	15	15
Whooping-cough		37	13	23	1	..	..	..	..	1	..	3	..	2	6
Diphtheria and membranous croup		14	1	9	4	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	8	9
Croup		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fever	Typhus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric	3	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	2
	Other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic Influenza		8	..	..	..	..	7	1	..	3	..	..	..	..	3
Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa		102	77	19	..	..	3	3	..	20	..	..	..	11	31
Enteritis		14	11	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Puerperal fever		1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Erysipelas		1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	1
Other septic diseases		3	..	1	..	..	2	..	..	2	1	..	..	..	3
Phthisis		119	11	14	6	18	69	1	..	35	2	1	..	24	62
Other tubercular diseases		17	2	10	3	2	..	..	..	2	1	..	..	3	6
Cancer, malignant disease		54	..	..	..	..	37	17	..	16	2	..	..	9	27
Bronchitis		137	36	17	1	..	35	48	3	28	3	1	..	4	39
Pneumonia		94	21	33	3	..	26	9	1	12	3	..	..	18	34
Pleurisy		5	1	2	1	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Other diseases of Respiratory organs		9	2	2	..	1	4	..	..	4	2	..	..	1	7
Alcoholism		16	..	..	..	..	14	2	2	5	..	..	..	1	8
Cirrhosis of liver		16	..	..	..	..	14	2	2	5	..	..	..	1	8
Venereal diseases		4	4	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	2	3
Premature birth		46	46	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1
Diseases and accidents of parturition		7	..	..	..	1	6	..	..	1	..	..	..	1	2
Heart diseases		86	5	..	10	8	44	19	..	16	2	..	3*	12	33
Accidents		60	23	6	4	1	14	12	3	6	6	..	6†	6	27
Suicides		6	..	..	..	1	4	1	..	1	..	..	1‡	..	2
Murder		1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Heat Apoplexy		2	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
All other causes		330	106	26	8	11	84	95	12	49	12	1	..	59	133
All causes		1222	367	197	49	47	353	209	21	209	34	6	10	178	458

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* Highway, Poplar, 1; Highway, Bromley, 1; Belief Offices, Fairfield Road, 1. †East India Docks,
Poplar, 1; River Lea, Bromley, 3; Limehouse Cut, Bromley, 2. †River Lea, Bow, 1.

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Poplar 1905

Table: TABLE X.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR Parish of Bromley.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1905.

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