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Poplar 1907

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

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TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OP POPLAR. The Borough. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1907.

Causes of Death. (see page 35.)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.
All Ages.Under 1.1 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 65.65 and upwards.Poplar Union Workhouse.Sick Asylum.Sick Asylum, BlackwallStepney Union Workhouse.Poplar Hospital.See Footnotes.Outlying Institutions.
Smallpox..............................
Measles9415745........1........89
Scarlet Fever43221182................3838
Whooping-cough Diphtheria and Mem8133435......3........2528
branous Croup5043592......1....1..3537
Croup..............................
Typhus..............................
Fever Enteric11....155....3........58
Other continued..............................
Epidemic Influenza ..302..2..19714..........5
Cholera..............................
Plague..............................
Diarrhœa102*82153..2..20....2..1133
Enteritis22..10215413........15
Puerperal Fever3......12....1..........1
Erysipelas1351....43............33
Other Septic Diseases7..11..41..2........35
Phthisis238148122416911..92........35127
Other Tubercular
Diseases9030361626....51..2..2937
Cancer, Malignant
Disease127....139033139....1..3367
Bronchitis3334333211181362797211..7135
Pneumonia2575385968321134....9..3579
Pleurisy13..4..162..2........46
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs32162219933....1..512
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver'37........298211....2..318
Venereal Diseases54......1....2..........2
Premature Birth9595..........21........36
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition6........6..............33
Heart Diseases2321028913865934....42†3483
Accidents13342146103526318....1911‡9475
Suicides13......2101..........2§94
Spotted Fever.3..12..................22
Heat Apoplexy..............................
Rötheln..............................
All other causes809203512016222297391447..20..141351
All causes2879653436124869636178957310162154891179

* 82 include all deaths classified as diarrhœal diseases in Table XIII., see also page 35 Notes to
Table. † Highway, Poplar, 1; Highway, Bow, 1. ‡ River Thames, 3 ; River Lea, Bromley,
3; Highway, Bromley, 1 ; Poplar Collier Dock, 1 ; West India Dock, 1; Millwall Docks, 1;
G. E. Rly., Old Ford Road, 1. § River Lea, Bromley, 1; West India Docks, 1.