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Poplar 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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SUMMARY OF STATISTICS FOR 1926.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,136 acres
Population (Census, 1921) 162,618
Population, estimated to middle of 1926 169,000
Density 79
Number of Marriages 1340
Number of Inhabited Houses (Census, 1921) 23,064
Number of families or separate occupiers (Census, 1921) 37 ,288
Rateable Value £994,518
Sum represented by a penny rate (April, 1926) £3,833
Total M. F.
Births—Legitimate 3,576 1,820 1,7561
Birth Rate 21.6
—Illegitimate 82 41 41
Deaths 1,929 1,071 858 Death Rate 11.4
Number of women dying in, or in consequence of from sepsis 4
childbirth from other causes 9
Deaths of Infants under one year of age, per 1,000 births:—
*Legitimate, 67. Illegitimate, 3. Total, 70.
Deaths from Measles (all ages) 39
„ Whooping Cough (all ages) 9
„ Diarrhoea (under 2 years of age) 61
* Legitimate (per 1,000 legitimate births) 68
Illegitimate (per 1,000 illegitimate births) 158