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Poplar 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE IV. (1924).
| Cities and Boroughs. | Estimated population to the middle of 1924. | 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. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LONDON | 4,576,505 | .. | ] 8.7* | 121* | 69* | |
| Paddington | 146,400 | . . | 17.1 | 0.9 | 131 | 78 |
| Kensington | 178,700 | . . | 16.2 | 0.64 | 130 | 75 |
| Hammersmith | 134,200 | . . | 17.9 | 0.7 | 12.4 | 72 |
| Fulham | 163,100 | . . | 18.2 | 0.5 | 111 | 72 |
| Chelsea | 64,580 | . . | 14.4 | 0.8 | 13.2 | 63.5 |
| City of Westminster | 143,000 | . . | 11.6 | 0 4 | 12.1 | 59 |
| St. Marylebone | 105,300 | . . | 14.5 | 101 | 13.6 | 78 |
| Hampstead | 87,600 | . . | 13.5 | 0.09 | 11.7 | 56 |
| St. Pancras | 214,300 | . . | 18.8 | 1.0 | 130 | 74 |
| Islington | 3(7,400 | . . | 19.8 | 0.66 | 12.3 | 66 |
| Stoke Newington | 52,920 | . . | 16.6 | 0.7 | 11.3 | 58 |
| Hackney | 226,900 | . . | 18.5 | 0.45 | 11.4 | 60 |
| Holborn | 43,250 | . . | 13.36 | 0.57 | 12.2 | 81 |
| Finsbury | 77,180 | . . | 21.5 | 1.27 | 141 | 75 |
| City of London | 13,330 | . . | 7.1 | 0.14 | 11.3 | 117 |
| Shoreditch | 106,500 | . . | 23.7 | 1.2 | 13.7 | 87 |
| Bethnal Green | 119,200 | . . | 22.1 | 11 | 12.4 | 78 |
| Stepney | 2.54,340 | . . | 21.4 | 0.78 | 12.2 | 74 |
| Poplar | 167,300 | . . | 22 9 | 121 | 72 | |
| Southwark | 187,714 | . . | 22.5 | 1.5 | 14.2 | 71 |
| Berrnondsey | 122,100 | . . | 23.8 | — | 13.6 | 78 |
| Lambeth | 309,300 | . . | 25.5 | 0.6 | 12.5 | 50.05 |
| Battersea | 171,000 | . . | 18.4 | 0 7 | 11.7 | 62 |
| Wandsworth | 338!200 | . . | 14.57 | 0.47 | 11.03 | 57 |
| Camberwell | 273,700 | . . | 18.8 | 0.7 | 11.4 | 70 |
| Deptford | 115!200 | . . | 20.6 | 0.7 | 12.0 | 76 |
| Greenwich | 102,470 | . . | 20.09 | 0.69 | 11.47 | 73 |
| Lewisham | 184,900 | . . | 16.3 | 0.3 | 10.4 | 47 |
| Woolwich | 139,980 | . . | 18.5 | 0.5 | 11.0 | 65 |
'These provisional figures are taken from a table furnished by the Registrar.
general. Other figures supplied by Medical Officer of Health of borough concerned.