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Poplar 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The following death rates are interesting when compared with one
another*:—
Poplar Borough 19.9
Poplar (Parish) 20.6
Bromley 19.5
Bow 19.4
London 17.6
Liverpool 22.3
Manchester 22.1
Edinburgh 19.3
Glasgow 21.1
Dublin 24.7
Belfast 22.1
Paris 18.6
Berlin 18.0
Munich 22.4
Vienna 19.7
Moscow 28.9
St. Petersburg 24.1
Madrid 32.8
Trieste 25.8
Breslau 25.3
Prague 23.6
Calcutta 46.5
Madras 55.1
Bombay 76.7
New York 20.0
New Orleans 21.2
Alexandria 32.8
* In 38 European, Australian and American cities with an aggregate
population of more than 28^ millions the death rate was 19.7 per 1000 (Annual
Summary 1901 Registrar General).