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Poplar 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Particulars.Males.Females.Totals.
Births occurring within the Sub-District of persons not belonging thereto:—161834
St. Andrew's Hospital811
Bromley House Institution66
Brunswick Road21
Births, nett9609131,873
Bow.
Registrar's Weekly Returns429427856
Births occurring outside the Sub-District of persons belonging thereto:—
Mothers' Home, Stepney175383386
London Hospital32
City of London Maternity Hospital134
Salvation Army Hospital, Clapton83
Queen Charlotte's Hospital1
Queen Mary's Hospital, West Ham2
Guy's Hospital1
Bristol Maternity Hospital1
Royal Free Hospital11
St. Bartholomew's Hospital11
All Saints' Maternity Hospital, Poplar S.D14
Poplar S.D.1
St. Andrew's Hospital, Bromley S.D2
Bancroft Lodge, Mile End11
Hackney Infirmary1
Hackney Borough1
Stepney Borough1
Sittinabourne U.D.C.1
Wanstead U.D.C.—,
Births, n"tt482460942

Transferable Births Registered during the year 1922.

Early in the year 1923 the Registrar-General afforded the following information for the year ended 30th December, 1922:—

Registered Births.Inward Transfers.Outward Transfers.
Total births—Males2,02926115
Females1,96219614
Illegitimate —Males51136
Females30113

The corrected total births for the Borough, according to the Registrar General, is:—

Males.Females.Total.
2,2752,1444419

giving a rate of 26'66 per 1,000 inhabitants.

The number of illegitimate births belonging to the Borough, according to tho Registrar General, is:—

Males.Females.Total.
583896