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Poplar 1902

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

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Metropolitan Borough of Poplar
Comprising the Parishes of All Saints, Poplar, Bromley
St. Leonard, and St. Mary, Stratford-le-Bow.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar.
Sir and Gentlemen,
In accordance with "The Sanitary Officer's (London) Order
1891," of the Local Government Board, dated 8th December, 1891,
I have the pleasure of submitting to you my tenth Annual Report,
which Report deals with the year 1902* and includes the Annual
Reports of the Sanitary Inspectors, also the Report of the Lady
Inspector and that of the Assistant Sanitary Inspector engaged in
enforcing the bye-laws for Houses let in Lodgings or occupied by
Members of more than one Family.

Table: VITAL STATISTICS- The population of the Borough, estimated to the middle of the year 1902, on the theory of the basis of the rate of change between the censuses of 1896 and 1901 being maintained, is 169,084:—

VITAL STATISTICS- The population of the Borough, estimated to the middle of the year 1902, on the theory of the basis of the rate of change between the censuses of 1896 and 1901 being maintained, is 169,084:—

Registration London.Poplar.Bromley.Bow.
4,579,11058,84168,08242,161

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* The year 1902 for registration purposes covered a period of 53 weeks,
and ended on the 3rd January, 1903.