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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 VII. BROMLEY.
| Quarters. | Total. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ist. | 2nd. | 3rd. | 4th. | ||
| Miasmatic Diseases | 46 | 56 | 42 | 37 | 181 |
| Influenza | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 9 |
| Diarrhœal | 3 | 3 | 60 | 6 | 72 |
| English Cholera | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Malarial | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Zoogenous | *1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Venereal | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Septic | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Parasitic Diseases | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Privation and Alcoholism | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Constitutional Diseases | 42 | 55 | 53 | 52 | 202 |
| Developmental Diseases | 23 | 20 | 18 | 21 | 82 |
| Diseases of Nervous System | 30 | 50 | 28 | 33 | 147 |
| Diseases of Organs of Special Sense | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Diseases of Circulatory System | 33 | 22 | 26 | 42 | 123 |
| Diseases of Respiratory System | 97 | 62 | 44 | 105 | 308 |
| Diseases of Digestive System | 8 | 16 | 21 | 18 | 63 |
| Diseases of Lymphatic System | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diseases of Gland-like Organs of Uncertain Use | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Diseases of Urinary System | 8 | 7 | 8 | 7 | 30 |
| Diseases of Organs of Generation | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Accidents of Childbirth | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Diseases of Bones and Joints | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| Diseases of Integumentary System | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| Accident or Negligence | 14 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 65 |
| Homicide | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Suicide | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Sunstroke | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Ill-Defined and not Specified Causes | 20 | 16 | 28 | 27 | 91 |
| Total | 348 | 338 | 355 | 381 | 1422 |
* Hydrophobia.