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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 1902

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: The following death rates are interesting when compared with one another:—

The following death rates are interesting when compared with one another:—

Poplar Borough19.65
Poplar (Parish)21.20
Bromley18.98
Bow18.59
London17.7
Liverpool22.5
Manchester20.0
Edinburgh17.8
Glasgow20.1
Dublin24.2
Belfast20.8
Paris18.4
Milan21.1
Munich21.3
Vienna19.4
Moscow26.5
St. Petersburg23.0
Trieste26.3
Buda-Pesth19.2
Prague23.5
Calcutta37.2
Madras42.1
Bombay62.2
New York18.7
New Orleans21.5
Alexandria35.8
Cairo35.4

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In thirty-one European, Australian, and American cities, with an
aggregate population exceeding twenty-four millions, the death rate
was 18.7 par 1,000 (Annual Summary Registrar-General).