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Poplar 1914
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Illegitimate Births (1914)
Particulars Males. Females. Total
Poplar (Sub-District)
Registrar's Weekly Returns 28 26 54
Births occurring outside the
Sub-District of persons belonging
thereto:—
Poplar and Stepney
Sick Asylum 0 2 2
Births occurring within the
Sub-District of persons not
belonging thereto:—
Poplar Union Work-
house 8 9 8 14 23
31, Sturry Street 1 6
Births, nett 19 14 33
Bromley
Registrar's Weekly Returns 12 20 32
Births occurring outside the
Sub-District of persons
belonging thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse
5 6 11
Births occurring within the
Sub-District of persons not
belonging thereto:—
Sick Asylum 0 2 2 1
Bromley House Institution 1 6 7
l 4
Births, nett 16 20 36
Bow
Registrar's Weekly Returns 8 7 15
Births occurring outside the
Sub-District of persons
belonging thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse
3 1 4
Births nett 11 8 19
making a corrected total of 88 illegitimate births for the Borough:—
46 males and 42 females (See page 5 corrections received from
Registrar-General )