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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 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar District - Bow District & Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow]

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3
Births.
Male. Female.
749 695
Total—1,444-
Illegitimate births, 4 male, 11 female. Birth late per 1000
living 34.0.
Deaths.
Male. Female
487 483
Total—970.
The following Table gives the excess of births over deaths since
1880 :—

Table: TABLE III.

TABLE III.

Bow—1880794Bow—1890514
18817091891484
18827571892408
18838121893434
18847571894576
18857451895598
18868071896500
18876691897651
18887271898573
18896111899633
1900474

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Illegitimate deaths,—1 male, 5 females.
Death rate per 1000 living,—22.8.
Number of deaths under one year of age,—338.
Deaths under one year of age, rate per 1000 births registered,— 234.