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being 60.6 inhabitants per acre in Registration London, 72.3 per
acre for the Borough of Poplar, 53.1 per acre in Poplar parish, 112.2
in Bromley, and 74.6 in Bow.* These estimated populations are the
figures used in calculating the various rates in the present Report
for the year 1901.
The various rates quoted in this Report for the years 1893 to 1900
are the rates as stated in previous Reports, they are calculated upon
the then estimated populations, and as far as possible from past
Annual Reports for the Parish of Bow figures respecting certain
diseases have been extracted and the rates worked out so that the
three parishes might be compared, but the rates in Tables IV., V., VI.,
have been calculated upon revised estimated populations based upon
the known censuses of 1891, 1896, and 1901.

Of these births 81 were illegitimate in Poplar, 41 males and 40
females. In Bromley there were 44 illegitimate births 22 males and
22 females. In Bow there were 5 illegitimate births, 1 male and 4
females, making a total of 130 in the Borough.
Of the 2081 births registered in Poplar, 55 occurred in the Poplar
Union Workhouse, and of the 2347 registered in Bromley, 1 occurred
in the Sick Asylum and 29 in the Stepney Union Workhouse, and 1
in the City of London Union Infirmary.
* These figures are calculated upon the acreage of the district including the
water area, but exclusive of area covered by water they are:—93.3 per acre for
the Borough of Poplar, 99.9 for the parishes of Poplar and Bromley combined,
and 77.7 for Bow. County of London 62.9 (no account being taken of tidal water
and foreshore).