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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 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar District - Bow District & Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow]

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Table: TABLE I.Census.

TABLE I.

Census.

Years.Population of Bow.Years.Population of Bow
18012101186111,S75
18112259187126,005
18212349188137,063
18313371189140,378
18414626189641,687
18516999190141,990*

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The density of the population was 7.2 per house, and the number
of inhabited houses was 5,837 an increase of 169 since last year.
The following Table shows the record since 1871.

Table: TABLE II.

TABLE II.

Inhabited Houses.Estimated Population.No. of Inhabitants per House.
1871382926,0556.7
1881500237.0637.3
1891524940,3787.6
I893574141.1437.3
1894557241.4957.4
189S562841,8507.4
1896567741,7477.3
189757oi41,9497.3
1898569642,0807.3
1899566842,34975
1900• 583742,4287.2

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•Provisional Result 15th June 1901.