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Poplar 1909

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

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TABLE X.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Sub-District of Bromley.

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 without 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.Poplar Hospital.See Footnotes.Outlying Institutions.
Small-pox............................
Measles5411421........14......519
Scarlet Fever10145................99
Whooping-cough391623..........2......810
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup6..51................55
Croup............................
FeverTyphus............................
Enteric4......22....2......24
Other continued............................
Epidemic Influenza7........521..........1
Cholera............................
Plague............................
Diarrhœa402712......126..3..617
Enteritis1178....1....1......23
Gastritis75......11......1....1
Pueperal Fever5........5..11......13
Erysipelas44........................
Other Septic Diseases21......1............22
Phthisis9043321623128..2..2152
Other Tuberculous
Diseases19311122..11..2..610
Cancer, Malignant Disease50........3515..12......1325
Bronchitis131235..24259331..1..742
Pneumonia1102535732911317..3..1841
Pleurisy4..11..11..........22
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs1463....5........1..34
Alcoholism15........11417........8
Cirrhosis of Liver
Venereal Diseases33....................22
Premature Birth3838............3......14
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition5........5....1........1
Heart Diseases7252454511111..2*1924
Accidents55139711510111..9†31084
Suicides8......17....1..2‡216
Varicella11....................11
All other causes310881779781121469..5..48136
All causes1120281175374535223029218..316182466

* Highway, Poplar, 1. † River Lee, Bromley, 1; Limehouse Cut, 1; Bow Road,
Bow, 1. ‡ River Lee, Bromley, 1; Limehouse Cut, Bromley, 1.