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Poplar 1909

[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 1909.

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TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

The Borough.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1909.

		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 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.	Stepney Union Workhouse.	Poplar Hospital.	See Footnotes.	Outlying Institutions.	Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
Smallpox		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Measles		152	31	117	4	..	..	..	..	36	..	..	..	..	13	49
Scarlet Fever		22	3	9	10	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	19	19
Whooping-cough		78	32	46	..	..	..	..	..	10	1	..	..	..	12	23
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup		18	1	15	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	13	13
Croup		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Fever	Typhus	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
	Enteric	14	..	1	5	4	4	..	..	3	..	..	2	..	9	14
	Other continued	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Epidemic Influenza		20	1	..	..	2	11	6	1	..	..	..	..	11	2	4
Cholera		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Plague		..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..
Diarrhœa		92	61	28	..	..	1	2	4	8	..	..	4	..	10	26
Enteritis		23	12	7	..	..	1	3	1	5	..	..	..	..	8	14
Gastritis		10	6	..	..	..	3	1	..	2	..	..	1	..	3	6
Puerperal Fever		6	..	..	..	1	5	..	1	1	..	..	..	..	1	3
Erysipelas		6	4	..	..	..	2	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
Other Septic Diseases		6	2	1	..	..	3	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	4	5
Phthisis		237	7	8	12	35	170	5	1	79	1	..	2	2†	40	125
Other Tuberculous Diseases		57	13	26	10	3	5	..	1	9	..	..	2	..	16	28
Cancer, Malignant Disease		149	..	..	1	1	96	51	3	46	1	..	..	..	34	84
Bronchitis		284	51	14	2	2	100	115	14	65	..	..	1	..	17	97
Pneumonia		257	58	80	15	5	70	29	6	40	..	..	5	1‡	43	95
Pleurisy		15	1	5	1	..	5	3	..	1	..	..	..	..	7	8
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs		40	16	4	3	2	12	3	1	3	..	..	2	..	7	13
Alcoholism		38	..	..	..	..	33	5	2	13	..	..	1	1§	..	17
Cirrhosis of Liver f		38	..	..	..	..	33	5	2	13	..	..	1	1§	..	17
Venereal Diseases		8	6	..	..	..	2	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	6	7
Premature Birth		95	95	..	..	..	..	..	..	5	..	..	..	..	1	6
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition		13	..	..	..	2	11	..	..	4	..	..	..	..	2	6
Heart Diseases		189	9	2	10	19	107	42	2	23	..	..	5	1\|\|	35	66
Accidents		130	36	19	11	8	40	16	2	12	..	..	14	19¶	31	78
Suicides		18	..	..	..	2	16	..	..	1	..	..	2	22	4	9
Heat Apcplexy		1	..	..	..	..	..	1	..	..	..	..	..	1††	..	1
Cerebro-Spinal Fever		2	1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	2	2
Varicella		1	1	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	1	1
All other causes		821	223	41	23	18	201	315	41	176	3	..	10	2‡‡	142	374
All causes		2802	670	424	109	104	898	597	81	543	6	..	51	30	483	1194

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* Millwall Junction, G.E.R. Station, 1. † Relief Offices, Fairfield Road, 1; Highway,
Bow, 1. ‡ East India Docks, Poplar, 1. § Highway, Bow, 1. || Highway, Poplar, 1.
¶ Scandinavian Sailors' Home, 2; West India Docks, 2; East India Docks, Poplar, 1;
Millwall Docks, 1; River Thames, Poplar 8; River Lee, Bromley, 1; Highway, Bow, 3;
Limehouse Cut, Bromley, 1. ** River Lee, Bromley, 1; Limehouse Cut, Bromley, 1.
†† West India Docks, 1. †† East India Docks, Poplar, 1; Bromley Parish, 1.

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Table: TABLE VIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.The Borough.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year 1909.

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