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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population in the middle of 1905. | Notifications. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living. | Death-rate per 1,000 living. | Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON | 4,684,794 | 7.0 | 1.71 | 15.6 | 131 |
| Paddington | 147,935 | 3.8 | 1.39 | 13.3 | 123 |
| Kensington .. | 180,083 | 3.8 | 1.39 | 14.0 | 144 |
| Hammersmith | 119,037 | 6.6 | 1.70 | 13.9 | 135 |
| Fulham | 157,210 | 8.2 | 2.71 | 15.1 | 145 |
| Chelsea | 74,496 | 5.2 | 1.03 | 14.8 | 117 |
| City of Westminster | 175,606 | 3.8 | 0.81 | 13.5 | 114 |
| St. Marylebone | 129,453 | 4.8 | 1.12 | 15.5 | 88 |
| Hampstead | 88,142 | 3.5 | 0.53 | 9.3 | 94 |
| St. Pancras | 236,183 | 6.7 | 1.50 | 15.8 | 135 |
| Islington | 342,994 | 5.6 | 1.47 | 14.5 | 125 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,828 | 5.7 | 1.14 | 12.9 | 122 |
| Hackney | 228,479 | 8.4 | 1.98 | 14.0 | 129 |
| Holborn | 56,481 | 4.7 | 1. 12 | 17.5 | 92 |
| Finsbury | 98,207 | 8.0 | 2.17 | 19.0 | 127 |
| City of London | 22,425 | 5.4 | 0.57 | 17.4 | 149 |
| Shoreditch | 116,565 | 10.0 | 2.96 | 19.7 | 167 |
| Bethnal Green | 130,401 | 10.6 | 2.27 | 18.6 | 151 |
| Stepney | 305,466 | 10.4 | 2.58 | 17.7 | 141 |
| Poplar | 169,744 | 10. 0 | 2.56 | 17.6 | 152 |
| Southwark | 208,528 | 7.0 | 2.39 | 18.5 | 148 |
| Bermondsey | 129,006 | 8.8 | 2.21 | 18.7 | 148 |
| Lambeth | 313,045 | 6.0 | 1.50 | 14.9 | 115 |
| Battersea | 177,532 | 7.1 | 1.99 | 14.5 | 131 |
| Wandsworth | 265,392 | 8.4 | 1.46 | 12.6 | 119 |
| Camberwell | 271,240 | 7.1 | 1.30 | 13.7 | 124 |
| Deptford | 114,495 | 8.3 | 1.19 | 14.3 | 122 |
| Greenwich | 103,493 | 5.4 | 1.30 | 13.4 | 119 |
| Lewisham | 144,420 | 6.2 | 0.95 | 11.7 | 92 |
| Woolwich | 125,372 | 7.3 | 1.02 | 12.8 | 102 |
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