Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 18.11
Poplar (Parish) 18.77
Bromley 18.73
Bow 16.42
London 15.7
Liverpool 20.5
Manchester 19.7
Edinburgh 16.8
Glasgow 19.2
Dublin 22.9
Belfast 20.0
Berlin 16.5
Paris 17.9
Milan 21.8
Munich 20*7
Vienna 18*6
Moscow 27*5
St. Petersburg 23*8
Trieste 255
Breslau 23*8
Buda-Pesth 189
Prague ., 190
Calcutta . . 33 7
Madras 37*8
Bombay 65*1
New York 18*2
New Orleans . . -. 21*6
Alexandria ., 28*9
Cairo 33 C
In thirty-four European, Australian and American cities, with an
aggregate population exceeding twenty-seven millions, the death
rate was 18 3 per 1000 (Annual Summary Registrar-General).