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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Poplar 1915

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Illegitimate Births (1915).

Illegitimate Births (1915).

Particulars.Males.Females.Total.
Poplar (Sub-District).
Registrar's Weekly Returns243559
Births occurring outside the Sub-District of persons belonging thereto:—
East End Mothers' Home011
Births occurring within the SubDistrict of persons not belonging thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse78121624
31, Sturry Street14
Births, nett162036
Bromley.
Registrar's Weekly Returns121830
Births occurring outside the Sub-District of persons belonging thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse4610
Births occurring within the SubDistrict of persons not belonging thereto :—
Sick Asylum0 33125
Bromley House Institution1
Births, nett132235
Bow.
Registrar's Weekly Returns7613
Births occurring outside the Sub-District of persons belonging thereto:—
Poplar Union Workhouse00344
Sick Asylumo1
Births, nett71017

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making a corrected total of 88 illegitimate births for the Borough:—
36 males and 52 females. (See page 5 corrections received from the
Registrar-General.)