Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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 | ||
Bromley | ||
London | 18.2. | |
Edinburgh | 21.3. | |
Glasgow | 22.0. | |
Dublin | 29.0. | |
Paris | 18.6. | |
Berlin | 17.7. | |
Munich | 24.3. | |
Vienna | 20.9. | |
Moscow | 28.7. | |
St. Petersburg | 29.0. | |
Trieste | 25.6. | |
Buda-Pesth | 21.9. | |
Bieslau | 24.5. | |
Venice | 20.3. | |
Calcutta | 32.3. | |
Madras | 35.5. | |
Bombay | 57.5. | |
Cairo | 32.4. | |
Alexandria | 31.8. | |
New York | 19.4. | |
New Orleans | 24.5. |