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VITAL STATISTICS.
I estimate to the middle of the year 1894 the populations of the
parishes as follows:—Poplar, 57,226, being 49.1 persons to an acre,
and Bromley 72,026, being 118.4 persons to an acre. I have also
estimated the populations to the middle of the year 1894 of each of
the four divisions of my district, by means of the enumerated
populations at the Census of 1891 of the various Ecclesiastical
parishes into which Bromley is split, and the Wards for rating
purposes into which Poplar is divided.
I find South Poplar, or that portion of the parish south of the
northern bridges of the West India Dock, almost corresponds, so far
as the population is concerned, with the South Ward, which is now
divided into two. The East and West Wards constitute North
Poplar.
The two Ecclesiastical parishes of St. Mary, and All Hallows, Bow
Common Lane, which are situated practically north of the Limehouse
Canal, form North Bromley, and the three which lie south of the
Canal namely, the Ecclesiastical parishes of St. Gabriel, St Michael
and All Angels, and All Hallows, East India Dock Road, constitute
South Bromley. The estimated populations being as follows :—
Poplar—North—36,747 Bromley—North—33,439
South—20,479 South—38,587
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Total 57,226 Total 72,026
By finding the estimated populations of these sub-districts, I have
been able to work out the rates of the Diphtheria and Typhoid Fever
cases occurring in them.
At the last Census there were 7844 houses in Poplar, and 9332 in
Bromley, giving with the present enumerated populations an average
of about 7.3 persons per house in Poplar, and about 7.7 in Bromley;