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Poplar 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR 1923.
| Area of Borough (excluding water) | 2,136 acres | ||||
| Population (Census, 1921) | 162,618 | ||||
| Population, estimated to middle of 1923 | 166,400 | ||||
| Density | 77.9 | ||||
| Number of Marriages | 1,339 | ||||
| Number of Inhabited Houses (Census, 1921) | 23,064 | ||||
| Number of families or separate occupiers | 37,288 | ||||
| Rateable Value | £932,704 | ||||
| Sum represented by a penny rate | £3,755 | ||||
| Total | M. | F. | |||
| Births—Legitimate | 4,161 | 2,150 | 2,011 | Birth Rate 25.6 | |
| —Illegitimate | 95 | 54 | 41 | ||
| Deaths | 1,880 | 1,049 | 831 | Death Rate 11.3 | |
| Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, childbirth | from sepsis 7 | ||||
| from other causes 7 | |||||
| Deaths of Infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births:— | |||||
| Legitimate, 58. | Illegitimate, 2. | Total, 60. | |||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 22 | ||||
| ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) | 7 | ||||
| ,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) | 32 | ||||