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Poplar 1911

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

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Table: TABLE X.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Sub-District op Poplar.Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year1911.

TABLE X.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Sub-District op Poplar.

Causes of, and Ages at, Death during the Year1911.

Causes of Death, (see page 49.)Nett Deaths in Sub-District at subjoined Ages.Nett Deaths in Public Institu-;ions and certain localities within and outside Sub-District (at all ages) belonging thereto.Nett Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
All Ages.Under 1.1 and under 2. | 2 and under 5. I5 and under 15.15 and under 25. j25 and under 45.45 and under 65. 65 and upwards.Poplar Union Workhouse.Sick Asylum.Blackwall Sick Asylum.Stepney Union Workhouse.Poplar Hospital.See Footnotes.Outlying Institutions.
12345678 | 910
All ClassesCertified107026611053473712618924226197212820211485
Uncertified..................................
Enteric Fever9....15111....3........69
Smallpox..................................
Measles631232181..........3........1114
Searlet Fever3....21....................33
Whoping cough18594......................33
Diptheria and Croup122244....................99
Influenza3..........2..1................
Erysipelas1..............1..1............
Cerebro-Spinal Fever2..1......1................1..
Dysentery1..........1....................
Lead Poisoning1................................
Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)73..1351330201..33....11*1348
Tuberculous Meningitis133334..........2....1..25
Other Tuberculous Diseases101214....11..3........47
Rheumatic Fever..................................
Cancer, Malignant Disease56..........93017..21........1536
Bronchitis901561....2244251711....731
Broncho-Pneumonia2611722..191..4....9..814
Pneumonia (all other forms)48385341087..11..........20
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs157..13..1191......2....8
Diarrhoea and Enteritis1157727111..2518....4..1225
Appendicitis and Typhlitis4........3..1............44
Alcoholism5..........13131..........4
Cirrhosis of Liver9..........333..5........16
Nephritis and Bright's Disease30......117174..8........513
Puerperal Fever..................................
Other Accidents and Diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition3..........3..................1
Congenital Debility and Malformation, Including Premature Birth92884..............5........1520
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide581114741911836....1214††843
Suicides5..........311........1‡..1
Murder21........1..............1§..1
Manslaughter1............1..............11
Heat Apoplexy1..........1....................
Other Defined Diseases297307369366214412651..53¶67153
Diseases ill-defined or unknown.4........11..2..1....1..13
All causes107026611053473712618924226197212820 | 211485

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* On the High Seas (off Dungeness),1. †† East India Docks, 1; Limehouse Cut, Poplar. 2; West India Docks, 2; Bow Creek
Poplar, 2; River Thames, Poplar, 4; Millwall Docks, 3. X River Lea, Bromley, 1. § River Thames, Poplar, 1. ¶ Poplar
Police Station, 1 ; River Thames, Poplar, 2.