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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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In thirty European and American Cities, with an aggregate population of more than twenty and a half millions, the death rate was 19.8 per 1000, The following death rates are interesting when compared with one another:—

Poplar(a) 21.1.(b) 20.9.
Bromley(a) 19.7.(b) 19.3
London18.2.
Edinburgh21.3.
Glasgow22.0.
Dublin29.0.
Paris18.6.
Berlin17.7.
Munich24.3.
Vienna20.9.
Moscow28.7.
St. Petersburg29.0.
Trieste25.6.
Buda-Pesth21.9.
Bieslau24.5.
Venice20.3.
Calcutta32.3.
Madras35.5.
Bombay57.5.
Cairo32.4.
Alexandria31.8.
New York19.4.
New Orleans24.5.