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being 61.6 (see footnote) inhabitants per acre in Registration
London, 72 75 per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 50 6 per acre in
Poplar Parish, 112.2 in Bromley, and 76.2 in Bow.* These estimated
populations are the figures used in calculating the various
rates in the present Report for the year 1903.
The various rates quoted in this Report for the years 1893 to 1900
aro 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, 76 were illegitimate in Poplar, 36 males and 40
females. In Bromley there were 42 illegitimate births, 24 males
and 18 females. In Bow there were 7 illegitimate births, 4 males
and 3 females, making a total of 125 in the Borough.
Of the 2006 births registered in Poplar, 82 occurred in the
Poplar Union Workhouse, and of the 2439 registered in Bromley,
* These figures are calculated upon the acreage of the district including
the water area, but exclusive of area covered by water they are:—93.58 per
acre for the Borough of Poplar, 100.78 for the Parishes of Poplar and Bromley
combined, and 78'33 for Bow. County of London 61.6 (no account being
taken of tidal water and foreshore.)