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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1916
Annual report for the year 1916 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow
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Illegitimate Births (1916).
Particulars. Males. Females. Total.
Poplar (Sub-District).
Registrar's Weekly Returns .. 22 16 38
Births occurring outside the SubDistrict
of persons belonging
thereto:—
City of London Lying-in
Hospital ...... 1 0 1
Births occurring within the SubDistrict
of persons not belonging
thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse .. 7 6 16
31, Sturry Street .. .. 3}10 0}6
Births, nett ...... 13 10 23
Bromley.
Registrar's Weekly Returns .. 14 10 24
Births occurring outside the SubDistrict
of persons belonging
thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse .. 1 2 4
Salvation Army Hospital .. 0}1 1}3
Births occurring within the SubDistrict
of persons not belonging
thereto:—
Sick Asylum .. .. .. 0 1
11
Bromley House Institution 6 4}5
Births, nett ...... 9 8 17
Bow.
Registrar's Weekly Returns 5 5 10
Births occurring outside the SubDistrict
of persons belonging
thereto:—
Salvation Army Hospital 0 2 2
Births, nett .. .. 5 7 12
making a corrected total of 52 illegitimate births for the Borough :—
27 males and 25 females. (See page 5 corrections received from the
Regist rar-General.)