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Poplar 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
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 fourteenth Annual Report, which
Report deals with the year 1906, and includes the Annual Reports of the
Sanitary Inspectors, also the Report of the Lady Inspector and that of
the Sanitary Inspector engaged in enforcing the bye-laws for Houses let
in Lodgings or occupied by members of more than one family.
VITAL STATISTICS. Population. The population of the Borough, estimated to the middle of the year 1906, on the theory of the basis of the rate of change between the censuses of 1896 and 1901 being maintained, is 169,975:—
| Registration London. 4,721,217 | Poplar. 59,935 | Bromley. 67,300 | Bow. 42,740 |
being 60.l inhabitants per acre in Registration London, 73.04 per
acre for the Borough of Poplar, 5140 per acre in Poplar Parish, 111.23