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Poplar 1922
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XVII. (1922).
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of 1922. | Notifications. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Births. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON | 4,534,230 | * | 21.0 | ? | 13.4 | 74 |
| Paddington | 145,300 | * | 18.79 | 0.68 | 12.99 | 69 |
| Kensington | 179,100 | * | 17.6 | 0.97 | 13.6 | 82 |
| Hammersmith | 134,400 | * | 20.5 | 1.17 | 12.9 | 71 |
| Fulham | 159,500 | * | 20.3 | 0.93 | 12.1 | 69 |
| Chelsea | 63,920 | * | 16.1 | 0.78 | 13.3 | 66 |
| City of Westminster | 139,389 | * | 13.4 | 0.4 | 12.9 | 54 |
| St. Marylebone | 105,200 | * | 15.9 | 0.88 | 13.7 | 68 |
| Hampstead | 86,920 | * | 14.8 | 0.49 | 11.1 | 56 |
| St. Pancras | 212,500 | * | 21.5 | 1.19 | 14.6 | 74 |
| Islington | 333,900 | * | 22.47 | 1.05 | 13.82 | 77 |
| Stoke Newington | *52,590 | * | 17.8 | ? | 13.6 | 66 |
| Hackney | 225,400 | * | 21.0 | 0.68 | 12.7 | 72 |
| Holborn | 42,850 | * | 16.9 | 0.3 | 13.2 | 66 |
| Finsbury | 76,840 | * | 25.2 | 1.29 | 16.3 | 82 |
| City of London | 13,363 | * | 11.1 | 0.59 | 14.1 | 61 |
| Shoreditch | 105,800 | * | 27.9 | 1.7 | 16.3 | 102 |
| Bethnal Green | 118,400 | * | 25.2 | 2.16 | 15.3 | 90 |
| Stepney | 252,170 | * | 23.8 | 1.32 | 13.8 | 79 |
| Poplar | 165,700 | * | 26.65 | 1.58 | 14.31 | 79 |
| Southwark | 187,220 | 24.4 | 2.2 | 15.5 | 79 | |
| Bermondsey | *120,500 | 27.0 | ? | 17.0 | 101 | |
| Lambeth | 307,000 | 20.8 | 0.8 | 13.6 | 58 | |
| Battersea | 169,200 | 21.67 | 1.13 | 13.6 | 69 | |
| Wandsworth | *331,500 | 16.6 | ? | 11.2 | 61 | |
| Camberwell | *269,600 | 21.5 | ? | 13.4 | 78 | |
| Deptford | 114,100 | 23.1 | 1.38 | 13.8 | 74 | |
| Greenwich | 101,930 | 21.0 | 0.86 | 12.92 | 56 | |
| Lewisham | 176,600 | 18.16 | 0.52 | 11.14 | 54 | |
| Woolwich | 138,254 | 21.3 | 0.69 | 11.6 | 62 | |
* These provisional figures are taken from a table furnished by the Registrar
General. Other figures supplied by Medical Officer of Health of borough concerned.