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Poplar 1920

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

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TABLE XVII. (1920).

Cities and Boroughs.Estimated population to the middle of 1919.Notifications. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living.Births. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living.Zymotic Deaths. Annual rate per 1,000 persons living.Death-rate per 1,000 living.Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births.
LONDON4,531,971.26.50.9112.475
West Districts.
Paddington149,673.22.7.11.478
Kensington164,177.24.30.913.481
Hammersmith136,200.24.30.811.466
Fulham158,621.27.30.811.574
Chelsea68,500.20.30.0411.352
City of Westminster132,615.16.10.411.873
North Districts.
St. Marylebone101,856.21.50.512.765
Hampstead91,51917.10.29.448
St. Pancras228,178.25.40.912.473
Islington335,90728.11.013.372
Stoke Newington52,984.23.10.712.480
Hackney225,37226.61.012.780
Central Districts.
Holborn39,676.20.80.615.265
Finsbury78,291.32.40.914.774
City of London12,200.14.90.415.660
East Districts.
Shoreditch101,00036.91.415.691
Bethnal Green114,471.33.71.914.994
Stepney270,00027.20.912.890
Poplar159,766.34.11.314.781
South Districts.
Southwark187,14231.8.14.486
Bermondsey129,18931..21.312.783
Lambeth293,57227.50.912.963
Battersea165,66428.11.112.582
Wandsworth342,80831.00.610.364
Camberwell...
Deptford115,63628.30.812.279
Greenwich104,45324.60.911.775
Lewisham174,43822.80.410.762
Woolwich141,66624.70.510.561

* This figure was furnished by the Lancet, the remainder of the rates for
London being supplied by the Registrar-General.