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Poplar 1909

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

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TABLE IX.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Sub-District of Poplar.

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

Causes of Death. (see page 35.)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.
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.
Smallpox..............................
Measles5913433........7........714
Scarlet Fever9234..................77
Whooping-cough281216..........6..........6
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup8161..................56
Croup..............................
FeverTyphus..............................
Enteric8....422..........2..68
Other continued..............................
Epidemic Influenza8......233..........1123
Cholera..............................
Plague................................
Diarrhœa322110....1..22....1..49
Enteritis3..........3..1..........1
Gastritis31......2..................
Puerperal Fever..............................
Erysipelas1........1..................
Other Septic Diseases2..1....1....1........12
Phthisis723249531..281......1039
Other Tuberculous Diseases173102..2....4........59
Cancer, Malignant Disease65....1138253241......1543
Bronchitis951672..3436925........539
Pneumonia8821266226718......1†1527
Pleurisy7..3....31..1........34
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs2181325212....1..37
Alcoholism15........14115....1....7
Cirrhosis of Liver
Venereal Diseases31......2..1........-..23
Premature Birth3636............1..........1
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition5......23....1........12
Heart Diseases713..39371917....3..1425
Accidents47144251931......513‡1332
Suicides3......12..............22
Cerebro-Spinal Fever11......................11
Heat Apoplexy1..........1..........1§§1
All other causes3007419757811720632..52||55147
All causes10082301514240326219401864..2018176444

* Millwall Junction, G.E.R. Station, 1. †East India Docks, Poplar, 1. ‡Scandinavian
Sailors' Home, 2; West India Docks, 1; East India Docks, Poplar, 1.; Millwall Docks, 1;
River Thames, Poplar, 8. § West India Docks, 1. || East India Docks, Poplar, 1;
Bromley Parish, 1.