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Poplar 1908

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

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Table: TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. The Borough. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1908.

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TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. The Borough. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1908.

Causes of Death. (see page 43.)		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.
Causes of Death. (see page 43.)		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.	Stepney Union Workhouse.	Poplar Hospital.	See Footnotes.	Outlying Institutions.	Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
Smallpox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Measles		80	11	65	4	..	..	..	..	15	..	..	..	..	9	24
Scarlet Fever		36	3	22	10	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	26	26
Whooping-cough		68	41	26	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	23	23
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup		33	2	22	8	1	..	..	..	2	..	..	2	..	24	28
Croup		1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Fever	Typhus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric	13	..	1	1	3	8	..	..	7	..	..	..	..	3	10
	Other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic Influenza		38	1	..	1	3	19	14	..	6	..	..	..	..	2	8
Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa		142	104	33	2	..	1	2	..	13	..	..	..	..	16	29
Enteritis		46	25	13	1	..	4	3	..	6	..	..	4	..	7	17
Puerperal Fever		1	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1
Erysipelas		4	1	..	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	2
Other Septic Diseases		8	2	..	3	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	5	6
Phthisis		255	4	18	8	40	174	11	..	108	..	..	1	..	24	133
Other Tubercular Diseases		73	22	32	12	2	5	..	..	7	1	..	..	..	24	32
Cancer, Malignant Disease		151	..	..	1	3	97	50	..	54	..	..	..	..	28	82
Bronchitis		275	44	22	..	..	96	113	23	49	1	..	2	..	7	82
Pneumonia		206	59	63	6	4	56	18	1	98	1	..	4		30	64
Pleurisy		12	1	7	..	1	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	6	6
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs		24	8	2	2	2	6	4	..	1	..	..	..	..	4	5
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver		31	..	1	..	..	26	4	2	6	..	..	..	..	6	14
Venereal Diseases		8	6	..	..	1	1	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	3	5
Premature Birth		86	86	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	11	8	11
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition		6	..	..	..	..	6	..	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	3
Heart Diseases		196	9	9	10	12	110	53	3	28	..	1	1	1†	36	70
Accidents		138	33	17	19	13	41	99	3	17	..	..	16	29†	16	81
Suicides		14	..	..	..	2	7	5	1	..	..	..	1	2§	..	4
Found Dead		1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	1
Spotted Fever		4	2	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	2	4
Chickenpox All other causes		2 829	2 207	42	17	18	215	330	47	190	2	..	11	•21!	159	411
All causes		2781	675	389	100	105	883	629	80	545	5	1	45	36	471	1183

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* Limehouse Cut, 1. t Police Station, Poplar, 1. ‡ Millwall Docks, 5; West India
Docks, 3; Poplar Collier Dock, 2; River Thames, 6; River Lee, Bromley, 2; River Lee,
Bow, 2; Limehouse Cut, Poplar, 1; Limehouse Cut, Bromley, 1; Duckett's Canal, 1;
Regent's Canal, 1; Unicorn Wharf, Bow, 1; Highway, Poplar, 1; Highway, Bromley, 2; and
London County Council's Recreation Ground, St. Leonard Street, 1. § Duckett's Canal, 2.
|| Duokett's Canal, 1. West India Docks, I ; and Highway, Bromley, 1.

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Table: TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. The Borough. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1908.

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