Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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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being 60.3 inhabitants per acre in Registration London, 50.0 per acre
in Poplar and 114.6 in Bromley, and these estimated populations are.
the figures used in calculating the various rates in the present report.
In calculating the birth and marriage rates, also the general death
and zymotic rates in addition to using the above-mentioned estimated
populations, these rates have also been obtained by dealing with
populations estimated by deducting the deaths from the enumerated
populations and adding the births from the time that the census of
1896 (the end of the first quarter of the year) was taken to the middle
of the year 1898. The unknown figures relating to emigration and
imigration concerning the parishes have received no consideration.
Poplar.
Bromley.
Census 1896 5 7,7 59 69,821
Deaths from first quarter of year 1896
to middle of year 1898 2,824- 3,176-
54,935 66,645
Births for the corresponding period 4,47I + 5.758 +
Estimated population (b) to the middle
of year 1898 59,406 72,403
For convenience the rates as mentioned above will be styled (a)
or (b) according to the respective estimated population used.
Poplar. Bromley.
(a) 58,417 69,689
(B) 59,4O6 72,403
Certain houses have been pulled down in Culloden and Dee
Streets in order to build a Board School, and new dwelling houses
have been erected in Ailsa and Lochnagar Streets, but no insanitary
areas have been cleared in the parish of Bromley, therefore it is more
than probable that the estimated population of this parish has not