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Metropolitan Borough of Poplar
Comprising the Registration Sub-Districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar.
Sir, Madam and Gentlemen,
In accordance with the "Sanitary Officers' (London) Order, 1891,"
of the Local Government Board, dated 8th December, 1891, I have the
pleasure of submitting to you my twenty-sixth Annual Report, which
deals with the year 1918. The reports of the Lady Health Visitors are
appended, those of the Sanitary Inspectors have not been printed this year,
but the work as far as possible is shown in tabulated form, pages 99-101.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The population of the Borough, calculated by the Registrar General
is 139,530 for the death rate and 156,338 for the birth rate ‡:—
London. Poplar. Bromley. Bow.
3,954,554 † 48,467 55,865 35,198
4,430,9291† 54,306 62,594 39,438
being 59.95 per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 41.55 per acre in Poplar
Sub-District, 92.21 in Bromley, and 63.33 in Bow.* These estimated
populations are the figures used in calculating the various rates in the present
Report for the year 1918.
* These figures are calculated upon the acreage of the district including the inland
water area, not tidal and foreshore, but exclusive of area covered by water they are:—
65.32 per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 48.27 for the Sub-District of Poplar, 94.84
for the Sub-district of Bromley, and 64.82 for the Sub-District of Bow. County of
London 60.0 (Census 1911).
† Based on the returns furnished under the National Registration Act, 1915 and
under the scheme for rationing of sugar.
‡ See italics end of first paragraph, page 2.