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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 1899
Annual report, year 1899, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District
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In thirty-five of the principal Colonial and Foreign Cities, with
an estimated aggregate population exceeding twenty-six millions,
the deaths collectively were equal to a rate of 22.4 per 1000 living.
In thirty European and American Cities, with an aggregate
population of about twenty-three and a half millions, the rate
was 19.8 per 1000.
The following death rates are interesting when compared with one
another:—
Poplar (a) 23.2. (6) 22.6
Bromley (a) 22.6. (6) 21.4
London 19.8
Liverpool 26.4
Edinburgh 19.6
Glasgow 21.6
Dublin 30.8
Paris 20.2
Berlin 18.7
Munich 23.9
Vienna 20.6
Moscow 28.5
St. Petersburg 25.2
Trieste 27.7
Buda-Pesth 22.6
Breslau 25.4
Venice 24.3
Calcutta 35.0
Madras 38.1
Bombay 69.0
Philadelphia 18.8
New York 18.4
New Orleans 26.3