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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 1898

Annual report, year 1898, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District

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In thirty-three of the principal Colonial and Foreign Cities, with
an estimated aggregate population exceeding twenty-three millions,
the deaths collectively were equal to a rate of 22.2 per 1000 living.

Table: The following death rates are interesting when compared with one another:—

The following death rates are interesting when compared with one another:—

Poplar(a) 21.4.(b) 21.1.
Bromley(a) 21.1.(b) 20.3.
London...18.7.
Liverpool...24.0.
Edinburgh...19.7.
Glasgow...21.2
Dublin...26.8.
Paris...19.7.
Berlin...17.3.
Munich...25.1.
Vienna...20.1.
Moscow...30.0.
St. Petersburg...25.8.
Trieste...28.2.
Buda-Pesth...22.1.
Breslau...24.8.
Venice...22.6.
Calcutta...27.1.
Madras...44.9.
Bombay...63.1.
Philadelphia...19.2.
New York...19.1.
New Orleans...24.8.