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Poplar 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR 1925.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,136 acres
Population (Census, 1921) 162,618
Population, estimated to middle of 1925 168,500
Density 79
Number of Marriages 1362
Number of Inhabited Houses (Census, 1921) 23,064
Number of families or separate occupiers (Census, 1921) 37,288
Rateable Value £947,552
Sum represented by a penny rate (April, 1926) £3,833
Total M. F.
Births—Legitimate 3,765 1,930 1,8351
Birth Rate 22.7
—Illegitimate 66 34 32
Deaths 1,970 1,049 921 Death Rate 11.7
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, { from sepsis 5
childbirth { from other causes 7
Deaths of Infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births:—
*Legitimate, 71. Illegitimate, 4. Total, 75.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 27
,, Whooping.Cough (all ages) 60
,, Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 51
*Legitimate (per 1,000 legitimate births) 72
Illegitimate (per 1,000 illegitimate births) 227