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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, Madam 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. twenty-second Annual Report, which
Report deals with the year 1914, 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
Reports of the Lady Health Visitors are also included.
VITAL STATISTICS.
Population.
The population of the Borough, estimated to the middle of the year
1914, on the theory of the basis of the rate of change between the
censuses of 1901 and 1911 being maintained, is 160,839:Registration
London. Poplar. Bromley. Bow.
4,518,021 55,869 64,397 40,573
being 69.09 per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 47.90 per acre in Poplar
Sub-District, 106.30 in Bromley, and 73.01 in Bow.* These estimated
populations are the figures used in calculating the various rates in the
present Report for the year 1914.
* These figures are calculated upon the acreage of the district including the inland
water area, not tidal and foreshore, but exclusive of area covered by water they are :75.29
per acre for the Borough of Poplar, 55.64 for the Sub-District of Poplar, 109.33
for the Sub-District of Bromley and 74.72 for the Sub-District of Bow. County of
London 60.0 (Census 1911).