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Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
COMPRISING THE REGISTRATION SUB-DISTRICTS OF POPLAR, BROMLRY POW.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar.
Sir, Ladies and Gentlemen,
In accordance with the " Sanitary Officers' (London) Order, 1891,"
of the Local Government Board, dated 8th December, 1891, I have the
pleasure of submitting to you my twenty-eighth Annual Report, which
deals with the year 1920. The reports of the Tuberculosis Officer, the
Chief Health Visitor, and the Clinic Dental Surgeon are appended, but
those of the Sanitary Inspectors have not been printed, the work as far
as possible being shown in tabulated form.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The population of the Borough, calculated by the Registrar General
is 159,766 for the death rate and 159,941 for the birth rate † :—
London. Poplar. Bromley. Bow.
4,531,971 † 55,503 63,970 40,293
4,552,907 † 55,563 64,041 40,337
being 68.63 per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 47.59 per acre in Poplar
Sub-District, 105.59 in Bromley, and 72.50 in Bow.* These estimated
populations are the figures used in calculating the various rates in the present
Report.
* These figures are calculated upon the acreage of the district including the inlan
water area, not tidal and foreshore, Exclusive of area covered by water they are :—
74.79 per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 55.28 for the Sub-District of Poplar, 108.60
for the Sub-District of Bromley, and 74.20 for the Sub-District of Bow. County of
London 60.0 (Census 1911).
† Based on the returns furnished under the scheme for rationing of food.
† See italics end of first paragraph, page 2.