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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: TABLE 1.

TABLE 1.

Names of localities adopted for the purpos of these statistics: public institutions being shown as separate localities.1st Quarter2nd Quarter3rd Quarter4th QuarterTotal.
Poplar Sub-District1501207578423
Union Workhouse181381150
Baffin Buildings...............
Council Buildings...............
Grosvenor Buildings7...1412
Hanbury Buildings...1......1
Hudson Buildings...............
Montreal Buildings1.........1
Ontario Buildings...............
Ottawa Buildings...............
Prestage Buildings1.........1
Quebec Buildings...............
Toronto Buildings...............
Winnipeg Buildings...............
River Thames23218
East India Docks21...14
London Graving Dock......1...1
West India Docks3......15
South-West India Docks.........11
Poplar Dock, G.W.R.......1...1
Mill wall Docks1...1...2
Union Dry Dock...1......1
Limehouse Cut......112
Highway...............
Trinity Wharf11......9
Blackwall Tunnel...1......1
Bow Creek...1......1
1861439098517
Deaths occurring outside the sub-district among persons belongirig thereto*+ 11513699114464+
Deaths occurring within the sufo-district among persons not belonging thereto232212966—
Deaths at all ages—nett278257177203915
* Including 262 deaths in the Bromley Sub-District:- Sick Asylum, 201; Poplar Hospital, 48; and Bow Institution, 12; Bromley House Institution, 1.