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Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Comprising the Registration Sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and 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 Officers' (London) Order, 1891,"
of the Local Government Board, dated 8th December, 1891, I have the
pleasure of submitting to you my seventeenth Annual Report, which
Report deals with the year 1909, 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. The
Report of the Lady Health Visitor is also included.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
The population of the Borough, estimated to the middle of the year
1909, on the theory of the basis of the rate of change between the
censuses of 1896 and 1901 being maintained, is 170,688:—
Registration
London. Poplar. Bromley. Bow.
4,833,938 60,804 66,685 43,199
being 60.6 inhabitants per acre in Registration London, 73.32 per acre
for the Borough of Poplar, 52.13 per acre in Poplar Sub-District, 110.00
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