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Poplar 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]

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Table: TABLE III.POPLAR (P oplar and B romley P arishes).For whole District.

TABLE III.

POPLAR (P oplar and B romley P arishes).

For whole District.

Year.Population estimated to Middle of each Year.Births.Deaths under 1 Year of ageDeaths at all Ages. Total.Deaths in Public Institutions.Deaths of Nonresidents registered in District.Deaths of Residents registered beyond District.Deaths at all Ages. Nett.
Number.Rate.*Number.Rate per 1000 Births registered.Number,Rate.*Number.Rate.*
1234s678910111213
1894129,252444734.2677152274821.2900594305245919.0
1895130,166464735.5869187324324.9928564333301223.2
1896127,632464636.2802172289722.6859514290267320.9
1897127,885443334.4744168280.321.9862523327260720.4
1898128,106456135.4853185294923.0856521302273021.2
1899128,327446334.6796178322425.11006601317294022.9
Averages for years 1894-1899.128,561453235.0 34.7790173297723.1901552312273721.2
1900128,5404478810180308323.9991579327283122.0

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*Rates calculated per 1,000 of estimated population.
Note.—The deaths included in Column 7 of this table are the whole of those registered
during the year as having actually occurred within the district or division. The deaths included
in Column 12 are the number in Column 7, corrected by the subtraction of the number in
Column 10 and the addition of the number in Column 11.
By the term "Non-residents" is meant persons brought into the district on account of illness,
and dying there; and by the term "Residents" is meant persons who have been taken out of
the district on account of illness, and have died elsewhere.
Area of District in acres
(exclusive of area
covered by water).
1269
Total population at all ages
Number of inhabited houses
Average number of persons per house
126,319)
16,434
7.6
At Census
of 1891.

Table: TABLE IV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

TABLE IV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Poplar and Bromley.Poplar.Bromley.
Year.Population estimated to middle of each Year.Births regstered.Deaths at all Ages.Deaths under 1 year.Population estimated to middle of each year.Births registered.Deaths at all Ages.Deaths under 1 year.Population estimated to middle of each year.Births registered.Deaths at all Ages.Deaths under 1 year.
1894129,2524447245967757,2261907111529072,02625401344387
1895130,1664647301286957,5081998142438072,65826491588489
1896127,6324646267380257,8292031125136169,80326151422441
1897127,8854433260774458,1261912123033069,75925211377414
1898128,1064561273085358,4172005125434669,68925561476507
1899128,3274463294079658,7091981136336369,61824821577433
Averages of Years 1894 to 1899.128,5614532273679057,9691972127234570,59225601464445
1900128,5404478283181059,0011994139936469,53924841432446