Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The following death rates are interesting when compared with one another:—
Poplar Borough | 19.65 |
Poplar (Parish) | 21.20 |
Bromley | 18.98 |
Bow | 18.59 |
London | 17.7 |
Liverpool | 22.5 |
Manchester | 20.0 |
Edinburgh | 17.8 |
Glasgow | 20.1 |
Dublin | 24.2 |
Belfast | 20.8 |
Paris | 18.4 |
Milan | 21.1 |
Munich | 21.3 |
Vienna | 19.4 |
Moscow | 26.5 |
St. Petersburg | 23.0 |
Trieste | 26.3 |
Buda-Pesth | 19.2 |
Prague | 23.5 |
Calcutta | 37.2 |
Madras | 42.1 |
Bombay | 62.2 |
New York | 18.7 |
New Orleans | 21.5 |
Alexandria | 35.8 |
Cairo | 35.4 |
In thirty-one European, Australian, and American cities, with an
aggregate population exceeding twenty-four millions, the death rate
was 18.7 par 1,000 (Annual Summary Registrar-General).