London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

View report page

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

Poplar 1919

Annual report for the year 1919 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

This page requires JavaScript

Table: TABLE IV.Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1919 and Previous Years. Poplar (Whole Borough).

TABLE IV.Vital Statistics of Whole District during 1919 and Previous Years. Poplar (Whole Borough).

Year.Population estimated to middle of each Year.Births.Total Deaths Registered in the District.Transferable DeathsfNett Deaths belonging to the District.
Uncorrected Number.Nett.
Number.*Rate.of Non-residents registered in the District.of Residents not registered in the District.Under 1 Year of Age.At all Ages.
Number.Rate.
Number.*Rate per 1000 Nett Births.Number.*Rate
12345678910111213
1914160,8394884505931.4269416.7438520593117277617.2
1915156,2474585468729.9313920.0587507628134305919.5
1916155,095‡4393454326.9278217.9731474472103252516.2
168.746‡
1917143,443‡3578370023.1281219.690150635295241716.8
159,898‡
1918139,530‡2901320320.4352625.2896548344107317822.7
156,338‡
1919153,644‡3671394924.6233715.254942532883221314.4
160,051‡

Text

Copy text to clipboard

Notes.—This Table is arranged to show the gross births and deaths in the borough
and the births and deaths properly belonging to it with the corresponding rates. The
rates are calculated per 1000 of the estimated gross population.
* In Column 6 are included the whole of the deaths registered during the year as
having actually occurred within the borough, but excluding the deaths of soldiers and
sailors that have occurred in hospitals and institutions in the district.
In Column 12 are entered the number in Column 6, corrected by subtraction of
the number in Column 8 and by addition of the number in Column 9. Deaths in
Column 10 are similarly corrected by subtraction of the deaths under 1, included in the
number given in Column 8, and by addition of the deaths under 1 included in the number
given in Column 9.
†"Transferable Deaths" are deaths of persons who, having a fixed or usual residence
in England or Wales, die in a district other than that in which they resided. The
deaths of persons without fixed or usual residence—e.g., casuals—are not included in
Columns 8 or 9, except in certain instances under 3 (b) below.
The following special cases arise as to Transferable Deaths:—
(1) Persons dying in institutions for the sick or infirm, such as hospitals, lunatic
asylums, workhouses and nursing homes (but not almshouses) are regarded as residents
of the district in which they had a fixed or usual residence at the time of admission.
If the person dying in an institution had no fixed residence at the time of admission,
the death is not transferable. If the patient has been directly transferred from one
such institution to another, the death is transferable to the district of residence at the
time of admission to the first institution.
(2) The deaths of infants born and dying within a year of birth in an institution
to which the mother was admitted for her confinement are referred to the district of
fixed or usual residence of the parent.
(3) Deaths from violence are referred (a) to the district of residence, under the
general rule; (6) if this district is unknown, or the deceased had no fixed abode, to the
district where the accident occurred, if known; (c) failing this, to the district where
death occurred, if known ; and (d) failing this, to the district where the bodv was found.
Area of District in acres
(land and inland
water)
2327.7
Total population at all ages 162,442
Number of inhabited houses 22,472
Average number of persons per house 7.22
At
Census
of 1911.
Total families or separate occupiers 35,158
‡ See italics, page 2.