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Public Health Office,
Bow Road, E.3.
June, 1929.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors of the Metropolitan Borough
of Poplar.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my second Annual Report upon the Vital Statistics
and Sanitary Condition of the Borough.
Population.—The Registrar-General's estimate of 162,000 is actually
less than the population enumerated at the Census of 1921, despite a
natural increase from 1921 to 1928 of 11,000. Means of gauging accurately
the extent of migration and immigration are not available, but even
allowing that migration is in excess of immigration the estimated
population for this year appears to be unduly low.
This adversely affects the death rate for 1928 compared with
corresponding rates for previous years.
Births.—The corrected births were fewer than those of the preceding
year and the birth rate per 1,000 of the population (19.9) would have
been the lowest recorded in the Borough but for the reduction in the
estimated population.
Deaths.—Although there were 1,909 deaths in 1928, compared with
1,978 in 1927, the death rate is the same (11.8) owing to the altered
estimated population.
Infantile Mortality.—Infantile deaths from Measles numbered 14,
compared with only 1 in 1927, and this fact, taken in conjunction with
the decrease in the number of births registered during 1928, accounts for
the slightly higher rate (71).
Infectious Disease.—There has been a decided rise in the notifications
of infectious disease during 1928, mainly as the result of making Chickenpox
notifiable. Fewer cases of Scarlet Fever occurred, but this was more