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Poplar 1918

Annual report for the year 1918 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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The rates in Tables IV., V., VI. and VII., have been calculated
upon revised estimated populations based upon the censuses of 1901
and 1911 with the exception of the populations for 1915-917, which
were calculated by the Registrar General on the returns furnished
under the National Registration Act, 1915.
The following estimates of population have been adopted in the General
Register Office, Somerset House, for the calculation of the death rate and
birth rate of the Borough for the year 1981;
For the death rate 139,530
,, ,, birth ,, 156,338
During the year 1918 births took place in institutions within the
Borough as follows:—
Males. Females. Total. Remarks.
Poplar Union Workhouse 29 14 43 All Poplar Borough births
except six males and
five females.
Sick Asylum 7 16 23 All Poplar Borough births
except five males and
seven females.
Bromley House Institution 13 4 All Stepney births.
31, Sturry Street 0 2 2 Not Poplar births.

Table: The number of births as per headings of Registrars' weekly returns was as follows:—

The number of births as per headings of Registrars' weekly returns was as follows:—

Males.Females.Totals.
Poplar5235011,024
Bromley6305621,192
Bow349336685
Totals1,5021,3992,901

Table: The corrected number of births with additions and subtractions is as follows:—*

The corrected number of births with additions and subtractions is as follows:—*

Males.Females.Totals.
Poplar5755591,134
Bromley7106271,337
Bow378354732
Totals1,6631,5403,203

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*• See page 3. † See page -1, Transferable Births.