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Poplar 1916

Annual report for the year 1916 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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The corrected number of births with additions and subtractions is as follows:—*

Males.Females.Totals.
Poplar7877881,575
Bromley9629281,890
Bow5185601,078
Totals†2,2672,2764,543

† See page 5, Transferable Births.
Particulars. Males. Females. Totals.
* Poplar (Sub-District).
Registrar's Weekly Returns 757 752 1,509
Births occurring outside the bub-District of
persons belonging thereto :—
Mothers' Home, Commercial Road 40
London Hospital 1
Middlesex Hospital 1
Maternity Home, Plaistow 1
City of London Lying-in Hospital 1
Sick Asylum 1
45
87
1
0
1
4
1
44 89
Births occurring within the Sub-District of
persons not belonqinq thereto:—
Poplar Union
Workhouse
Bromley 3
Bow 0
Others 9
15
3
1
4
0
8 23
31, Sturry Street 3
Births, nett 787
788 1,575
Bromley.
Registrar's Weekly Returns
Births occurring outside the Sub-District of
persons belonging thereto:—
939 907 1,846
Mothers Home, Commercial Road
Poplar Union Workhouse
Queen Charlotte's Hospital
London Hospital
Maternity Home, Plaistow
Salvation Army Hospital
26
3
1
3
2
0
35
23
3
0
1
0
2
29 64
Births occurring within the Sub-District of
persons not belonging thereto:—
Sick Asylum
Bromley House Institution
Births, nett
5
7
12
962
3
5
8 20
928 1,890
Bow.
Registrar's Weekly Returns
Births occurring outside the Sub-District of
persens belonging thereto:—
501 537 1,038
Mothers' Home, Commercial Road
Poplar Union Workhouse
Sick Asylum
London Hospital
City of London Lying-in Hospital
Stepney (Underwood Street)
Salvation Army Hospital, Hackney
Queen Charlotte's Hospital
Maternity Home, Plaistow
Births, nett
3
0
4
1
4
1
0
2
2
17
518
9
1
1
3
6
1
2
0
0
23 40
560 1,078