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Poplar 1912
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Illegitimate Births (1912).
Particulars. Males. Females. Totals.
Poplar (Sub-District).
Registrar's Weekly Returns 36 32 68
Births occurring outside the
Sub-District of persons belonging
thereto:—
Stepney Union- Workhouse
... ... ... 0 1 1
Births occurring within the
Sub-District of persons not
belonging thereto
Poplar Union Workhouse 11 7 14 30
31, Sturry Street 5 7
Births, nett 20 19 39
Bromley.
Registrar's Weekly Returns 14 11 25
Births occurring outside the
Sub-District of persons belonging
thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse 7 4 11
Births occurring within the
Sub-District of persons not
belonging thereto:—
Sick Asylum1 0
Stepney Union Work- 7 9 16
house 6 9
Births, nett 14 6 20
Bow.
Registrar's Weekly Returns 13 3 16
Births occurring within the
Sub-District of persons belonging
thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse 2 2 3 4 6
101, Stebondale Road 0 1
Births, nett 15 7 22
making a corrected total of 81 illegitimate births for the Borough:—
49 males and 32 females. (See page 5, corrections received from
Registrar-General.)