London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

Poplar 1909

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

This page requires JavaScript

TABLE XI.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Sub-District of Bow.

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............................
Measles39732..........15......116
8carlet Fever3..21................33
Whooping-cough1147..........21....47
Diphtheria and Mem
branous Croup4..4..................33
Croup............................
FeverTyphus............................
Enteric2..11........1......12
Other continued............................
Epidemic Influenza51......31..............
Cholera............................
Plague............................
Diarrhœa20136......114......611
Enteritis954..........1......34
Gastritis............................
Puerperal Fever1......1..................
Erysipelas1........1............11
Other Septic Diseases21......1............11
Phthisis69..355551..23....*2934
Other Tuberculous Diseases2175711....4......59
Cancer, Malignant Disease34........2311..10......616
Bronchitis58122....242029......516
Pneumonia5912192..1511215......1027
Pleurisy411....11........22
Other Diseases of
Respiratory Organs52......21..1......12
Alcoholism8........8....1....†1..2
Cirrhosis of Liver
Venereal Diseases22....................22
Premature Birth2181............1........1
Diseases and Accidents of Parturition3........3....2......13
Heart Diseases461..352512..5......1217
Accidcnts28962263..1....‡3812
Suicides7........7............11
Cerebro-Spinal Fever1..1..................11
All other causes2116159545867441....3991
All causes674159983019220148121392..6125284

* Relief Offices, Fairfield Road, 1; Highway, Bow, 1. † Highway, Bow, 1.
‡ West India Docks, Poplar, 1; Highway, Bow, 2.