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Poplar 1907

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

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TABLE XI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Sub-District of Bow. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1907.

Deaths in Sub-District at subjoined Ages.Deaths in Public Institutions and certain localities within and without (at all ages) belonging thereto.Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
Causes of Death. (see page 35.)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.Blackwall Sick Asylum.Poplar Hospital.See Footnotes.Outlying Institutions.
Small-pox............................
Measles141121........1......23
Scarlet Fever6..42................66
Whooping-cough18792........2......35
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup11..101................1010
Croup............................
Typhus............................
Fever-Enteric3....111....2........2
Other continued............................
Epidemic Influenza10....2..71..1........1
Cholera............................
Plague............................
Diarrhœea22*192....1....5......38
Enteritis6..3....21..2........2
Puerperal Fever1........1................
Erysipelas411....11..........11
Other Septic Diseases2........11..1........1
Phthisis534154381..28......1033
Other Tubercular Diseases194103..2....1......78
Cancer, Malignant Disease34....1..2112..12......517
Bronchitis7363..13429321......226
Pneumonia73192723139..8......614
Pleurisy3......111..1......12
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs85......3..22......15
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver8........62..2........2
Venereal Diseases1........1....1........1
Premature Birth2222........................
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition1........1................
Heart Diseases602..22342016....†1715
Accidents37174128515..1‡1917
Suicides4........31..........22
Manslaughter............................
All other causes18545136452652412....3479
All causes6781529929182311499137212109260

* 19 include all deaths classified as "Diarrhœal Diseases" in Table XVI. See also
page 35, Notes to Tables. † Highway, Bow, 1. ‡ G. E. Rly., Old Ford Road, 1.