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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 1897
Annual report, year 1897, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District
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TABLE V.
| Sanitary Areas. | Estimated Population to the middle of 1897. | Notifications. Annual rate per 1000 persons living | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1000 persons living. | From all Causes. Death-rate per 1000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1000 births. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON | 4,463,169 | 10.2 | 2.57 | 17.7 | 158 |
| West Districts. | |||||
| Paddington | 126,161 | 8.0 | 1.94 | 14.4 | 149 |
| Kensington | 171,427 | 8.5 | 1.78 | 15.7 | 166 |
| Hammersmith | 105,959 | 6.6 | 1.99 | 16.7 | 171 |
| Fulham | 120,040 | 11.3 | 3.04 | 17.0 | 162 |
| Chelsea | 96,692 | 9.9 | 2.55 | 17.8 | 161 |
| St. George Hanover Square | 80,330 | 4.9 | 1.09 | 13.2 | 133 |
| Westminster | 53,027 | 7.4 | 2.49 | 18.9 | 166 |
| St. James Westminster | 22,576 | 9.9 | 1.87 | 17.5 | 163 |
| North Districts. | |||||
| Marylebone | 140,808 | 6.9 | 1.61 | 18.3 | 136 |
| Hampstead | 77,275 | 5.3 | 1.16 | 11.8 | 127 |
| St. Pancras | 242,255 | 8.8 | 2.47 | 18.7 | 168 |
| Islington | 341,134 | 8.6 | 1.91 | 15.8 | 136 |
| Stoke Newington | 34,136 | 6.7 | 2.12 | 14.3 | 121 |
| Hackney | 216,698 | 12.3 | 2.90 | 16.5 | 147 |
| Central Districts. | |||||
| St. Giles | 37,840 | 10.5 | 1.63 | 18.5 | 146 |
| St. Martin-in-the-Fields | 12,711 | 6.4 | 1.9 | 16.3 | 178 |
| Strand | 23,552 | 9.1 | 2.06 | 21.3 | 161 |
| Holborn | 30,493 | 11.5 | 2.79 | 23.1 | 184 |
| Clerkenwell | 66,162 | 13.3 | 3.61 | 22.1 | 184 |
| St. Luke | 41,279 | 13.4 | 3.82 | 25.7 | 149 |
| City of London | 30,228 | 7.0 | 1.66 | 21.3 | 130 |
| East Districts. | |||||
| Shoreditch | 121,883 | 11.0 | 4.07 | 21.6 | 183 |
| Bethnal Green | 129,098 | 13.8 | 3.41 | 21.4 | 171 |
| Whitechapel | 79,724 | 12.3 | 2.16 | 20.4 | 148 |
| St. George-in-the-East | 47,917 | 11.8 | 4.27 | 26.4 | 197 |
| Limehouse | 58,508 | 13.1 | 3.54 | 25.1 | 193 |
| Mile End Old Town | 111,883 | 13.4 | 2.97 | 18.7 | 149 |
| Poplar (Parish) | 58,126 | 11.4 | 3.06 | 21.1 | 172 |
| Bromley (Parish) | 69,759 | 14.5 | 2.92 | 19.7 | 164 |
| South Districts. | |||||
| St. Saviour Southwark | 24,919 | 11.2 | 3.66 | 24.6 | 195 |
| St. George Southwark | 60,388 | 11.7 | 4.35 | 23.7 | 189 |
| Newington | 122,191 | 11.1 | 3.59 | 21.2 | 177 |
| St. Olave Southwark | 11,480 | 12.1 | 2.96 | 22.1 | 154 |
| Bermondsey | 85,629 | 11.0 | 4.35 | 22.1 | 190 |
| Rotherhithe | 40,643 | 11.7 | 3.26 | 18.9 | 174 |
| Lambeth | 300,048 | 9.0 | 2.65 | 175 | 151 |
| Battersea | 168,877 | 15.0 | 2.79 | 16.2 | 162 |
| Wandsworth | 195,612 | 10.0 | 1.91 | 13.4 | 135 |
| Camberwell | 257,575 | 11.1 | 2.91 | 16.6 | 159 |
| Greenwich | 178,367 | 10.2 | 2.27 | 17.2 | 157 |
| Lewisham (excluding Penge) | 86,152 | 7.5 | 1.71 | 12.8 | 129 |
| Woolwich | 41,409 | 10.4 | 2.54 | 17.7 | 157 |
| Lee | 39,215 | 10.0 | 1.43 | 13.2 | 135 |
| Plumstead | 61,057 | 9.6 | 1.97 | 13.7 | 117 |
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