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Poplar 1908

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

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Table: TABLE IX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Sub-District of Poplar. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1908.

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TABLE IX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Sub-District of Poplar. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1908.

Causes of Death. (see page 43.)		Deaths in Sub-District at subjoined Ages.							Deaths in Public Institutions and certain localities within and outside Sub-District (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		25	4	21	..	..	..	..	..	4	..	..	..	..	3	7
Scarlet Fever		10	..	7	2	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	9	9
Whooping-cough		33	22	10	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	11	11
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup		4	1	3	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	2	3
Croup		1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Fever	Typhus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric	3	..	..	1	1	1	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	1	2
	Other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic Influenza		11	..	..	1	1	6	3	..	2	..	..	..	..	1	3
Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa		51	37	13	1	..	..	..	..	4	..	..	..	..	8	12
Enteritis		14	9	2	..	..	1	2	..	2	..	..	1		2	5
Puerperal Fever		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Erysipelas		2	1	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Other Septic Diseases		5	1	..	1	..	3	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	4	5
Phthisis		89	2	2	3	17	62	3	..	40	..	..	1	..	4	45
Other Tubercular Diseases		21	4	10	6	..	1	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	7	10
Cancer, Malignant Disease		59	..	..	1	..	37	21	..	21	..	..	..	..	11	32
Bronchitis		97	14	9	..	..	31	43	16	29	1	..	1	..	4	44
Pneumonia		76	17	23	1	1	24	10	1	11	1	..	4	..	11	28
Pleurisy		5	..	5	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	4	4
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs		8	2	1	..	1	2	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	2	3
Alcoholism Cirrhosis of Liver		13	..	..	..	..	10	3	1	3	..	..	..	..	2	6
Venereal Diseases		1	1		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Premature Birth		28	28	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	11	3	4
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Heart Diseases		75	4	..	4	6	41	20	2	7	..	1	1	1†	17	29
Accidents		61	13	4	5	8	20	11	2	6	..	..	8	19‡	4	39
Suicides		6	..	..	..	1	3	2	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	1
Spotted Fever		3	1	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	..	1	3
All other causes		302	61	17	5	5	83	131	18	66	1	..	4	1§	65	155
All causes		1003	223	128	33	42	326	'251	40	192	4	1	25	22	178	462

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* Limehouse Cut, 1. †Poplar Police Station, 1. ‡ Millwall Docks, 5; West India
Docks, 3; Poplar Collier Dock, 2; River Thames, 6; Limehouse Cut, Poplar, 1;
Highway, Poplar, 1; and Highway, Bromley, 1. § West India Docks, 1.

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Poplar 1908

Table: TABLE IX. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Sub-District of Poplar. Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1908.

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