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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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In thirty-four of the principal Colonial and Foreign Cities, with
an estimated aggregate population exceeding twenty-four and threequarter
millions, the deaths collectively were equal to a rate of 24.8
per 1000 living.
In twenty-nine European, Australian and American Cities, with an
aggregate population of over twenty-two millions, the rate was 20.7
per 1000.

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) 23.7(b) 23.0
Bromley(a) 20.5(b) 19.2
London...18.8
Liverpool...25.7
Manchester...24.1
Edinburgh...19.4
Glasgow...22.0
Dublin...27.6
Paris...20.6
Berlin...19.0
Munich...24.7
Vienna...20.5
Moscow...30.1
St. Petersburg...24.5
Trieste...28.9
Calcutta...50.6
Madras...46.2
Bombay...96.4
New York...20 6
New Orleans...24.7
Cairo...39.2
Alexandria...32.2