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Poplar 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE IV.
Birth-rate, Death-rate, and Analysis of Mortality During the Year 1930.
| 107 County Boroughs and Great Towns, including London† | 10.6 | 0.71 | 11.5 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.15 | 0.02 | 0.05 | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.50 | 8.3 | 64 | 90.6 | 6.6 | 2.3 | 0.5 |
| 157 Smaller Towns (1921 adjusted Populations 20,000-50,000)† | 16.2 | 0.69 | 10.5 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.08 | 0.01 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.43 | 4.4 | 55 | 91.8 | 5.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 |
| London† | 15.7 | 0.56 | 11.4 | 0.01 | 0.00 | 0.23 | 0.02 | 0.03 | 0.10 | 0.08 | 0.55 | 9.9 | 59 | 88.3 | 7.4 | 4.3 | 0.0 |
| 19.1 | 0.66 | 10.5 | 0.00 | 0.01 | 0.19 | 0.02 | 0.02 | 0.11 | 0.02 | 0.49 | 6.5 | 55 | 80.3 | 15.4 | 4.3 | 0.0 |
†Note by Registrar-General. Provisional Figures. The rates for England and Wales have been calculated on a
population estimated to the middle of 1930, but those for the towns have been calculated on populations estimated
to the middle of 1929. (The mortality rates refer to the whole population as regards England and Wales, but
only to civilians as regards London and the groups of towns).
*Rates for Poplar have been calculated on a population estimated to the middle of 1929