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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Poplar 1917

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

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Table: Grosvenor, Hanbury, and Council Buildings.

Grosvenor, Hanbury, and Council Buildings.

Causes of Death. (See page 37)Deaths belonging to Buildings at subjoined Ages.Deaths in Public Institutions within and without Borough (at all ages).Total Deaths in Public Institutions, &c.
i All Ages.Under 1.1 and under 2.2 and under 5.5 and under 15.15 and under 25.25 and under 45.45 and under 65.65 and upwards.Poplar Union Workhouse.Sick Asylum.Bow Institution.Poplar Hospital.Outlying. Institutions.
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Enteric Fever.............................................
Small-pox.............................................
Measles1......1.................................
Scarlet Fever.............................................
Whooping-cough.............................................
Diphtheria and Croup1......1...........................11
Influenza.............................................
En^sipelas.............................................
Phthisis (Pulmonary Tuberculosis)1...............1........................
Tuberculous Meningitis Other Tuberculous1...1..............................11
Diseases1..................1...............11
Cancer, Malignant Disease4..................4......1.........1
Rheumatic Fever..........................................
Meningitis..........................................
Organic Heart Disease4...........................2.........2
Bronchitis]...............1..................11
Pneumonia (all forms)3...0............I..................11
Other Diseases of Respiratory Organs...1.................................11
Diarrhoea and Enteritis...1.......................................
Appendicitis and Typhlitis.............................................
Cirrhosis of Liver.....................1......1.........1
Alcoholism.......................................
Nephritis and Bright's Disease.............................................
Puerperal Fever.............................................
Other accidents and diseases of Pregnancy and Parturition.............................................
Congenital Debility and Malformation, including Premature Birth22.......................................
Violent Deaths, excluding Suicide.............................................
Suicides1..................1.....................
Other defined Diseases3.....................3............33
Diseases ill-defined or unknown.............................................
All causes26522......377...4......913
Sub-Entries (includedin above figures). Pneumonia21............1..................11
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.......................................
Croupous Laryngitis.......................................