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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 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar]
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TABLE VI. POPLAR.
| Quarters. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ist | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | ||
| Miasmatic Diseases | 38 | 52 | 24 | 38 | 152 |
| Influenza | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Diarrhœal | 1 | 2 | 53 | 5 | 61 |
| English Cholera | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Malarial | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Zoogenous | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Venereal | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Septic | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Parasitic Diseases | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Privation and Alcoholism | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Constitutional Diseases | 44 | 50 | 63 | 57 | 214 |
| Developmental Diseases | 21 | 19 | 24 | 30 | 94 |
| Diseases of Nervous System | 29 | 28 | 17 | 26 | 100 |
| Diseases of Organs of Special Sense | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diseases of Circulatory System | 18 | 12 | 17 | 29 | 76 |
| Diseases of Respiratory System | 77 | 58 | 20 | 77 | 232 |
| Diseases of Digestive System | 21 | 22 | 34 | 17 | 94 |
| Diseases of Lymphatic System | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Diseases of Gland-like Organs of Uncertain Use | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diseases of Urinary System | 8 | 4 | 9 | 14 | 35 |
| Diseases of Organs of Generation | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Accidents of Childbirth | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Diseases of Bones and Joints | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| Diseases of Integumentary System | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Accident or Negligence | 17 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 60 |
| Homicide | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Suicide | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 9 |
| Execution | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ill-Defined and not Specified Causes | 11 | 15 | 25 | 32 | 83 |
| Total | 298 | 282 | 316 | 855 | 1251 |