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being 63.5 (see footnote) inhabitants per acre in Registration
London, 72.66 per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 54.6 per acre in
Poplar parish, 112-5 in Bromley, and 75.9 in Bow.* These estimated
populations are the figures used in calculating the various rates
in the present Report for the year 1902.
The various rates quoted in this Report for the years 1893 to 1900
are the rates as stated in previous Reports; they are calculated upon
the then estimated populations, and as far as possible from past
Annual Reports for the Parish of Bow figures respecting certain
diseases have been extracted and the rates worked out so that the
three parishes might be compared, but the rates in Tables IV., V., VI.,
have been calculated upon revised estimated populations based upon
the known censuses of 1891, 1896, and 1901.

Of these births 64 were illegitimate in Poplar, 35 males and 29
females. In Bromley there were 38 illegitimate births, 22 males
and 16 females. In Bow there were 5 illegitimate births, 1 male
and 4 females, making a total of 107 in the Borough.
Of the 2035 births registered in Poplar, 60 occurred in the
Poplar Union Workhouse, and of the 2467 registered in Bromley,
*These figures are calculated upon the acreage of the district including
the water area, but exelusive of area covered by water they are:—93.46 par
acre for the Borough of Poplar, 100.01 for the parishes of Poplar and Bromley
combined, and 78.07 for Bow. County of London 63.5 (no account being
taken of tidal water and foreshore).