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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Metropolitan Borough of Soplar.
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 twelfth Annual
Report, which Report deals with the Year 1904, 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.
VITAL STATISTICS.
The population of the Borough, estimated to the middle of the
year 1904, on the theory of the basis of the rate of chunge between
the censuses of 1896 and 1901 being maintained, is 169,519 :—
Registration
London. Poplar. Bromley. Bow.
4,648,950 59,378 67,696 42,445