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Poplar 1923

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

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Table: TABLE IV. (1923).

TABLE IV. (1923).

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated population to the middle of 1923.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.
LONDON4,564,109..20.2*?11.2*60*
West Districts.
Paddington146,200..17.90.411.769
Kensington178,500..17.50.6912.370
Hammersmith133,600..20.20.511.064
Fulham161,600..18.40.510.564
Chelsea64,480..15.10.412.258
City of Westminster140,430..12.50.0910.646.6
North Districts.
St. Marylebone105,400..15.80.4811.766
Hampstead87,410..14.30.410.342
St. Pancras214,400..20.30.612.163
Islington336,600..21.10.3811.666
Stoke Newington52,820..18.20.2310.246
Hackney226,400..19.60.2310.658
Central Districts.
Holborn43,376..13.670.5312.179
Finsbury77,230..23.90.7613.0360.7
City of London13,480..8.20.2211.260
East Districts.
Shoreditch106,200..26.90.813.082
Bethnal Green118,700..24.20.8811.368.7
Stepney253,850..22.80.711.062
Poplar166,400..25 .60.611.360
South Districts.
Southwark187,464..24.30.812.868
Bermondsey121,700..24.012.276
Lambeth308,500..27.040.411.242.7
Battersea170,600..20.10.6710.849.5
Wandsworth336,100..16.280.3910.1452.5
Camberwell272,300..20.70.711.056.7
Deptford114,900..21.10.6511.159
Greenwich102,777..20.510.4610.9560
Lewisham182,400..18.070.410.1443
Woolwich140,000..20.50.29.943

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* These provisional figures are taken from a table furnished by the Registrar.
General. Other figures supplied by Medical Officer of Health of borough concerned.