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Poplar 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Section I.
NATURAL AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS OF THE BOROUGH.
Area of Borough (excluding water) 2,136 acres
Population (Census, 1921) 162,618
Population, estimated to middle of 1929 160,000
Number of Inhabited Houses (Census, 1921) 23,064
Number of families or separate occupiers (Census, 1921) 37,288
Rateable Value (April, 1929) £869,481
Sum represented by a Penny Rate (April, 1929) £3,405
Social Conditions, including the chief occupations of the
inhabitants, and the influence of any particular occupation
on public health.
Poplar is an industrial district with a number of large factories and
several docks. There are also many wharves along the river, which
bounds the Borough on the south.
| Total | M. | F. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Births | Legitimate | 3,000 | 1,496 | 1.504 | Birth Rate 19.1 | |
| Illegitimate | 64 | 31 | 33 | |||
| Totals | 3,064 | 1,527 | ,.537 | |||
| Total | M. | F. | ||||
| Deaths | 2,266 | 1,187 | 1,079 | Death Rate | 14.2 | |
| Number of women dying in, or in consequence of, | from sepsis | 4 | |||||
| childbirth from other causes | 6 | |||||
| Maternal Death Rate | 3.3 | |||||
| Infantile Mortality Rate, 75. | ||||||
| (Legitimate, 74. Illegitimate, 156.) | ||||||
| Deaths from Measles (all ages) | 11 | |||||
| ,, Whooping Cough (all ages) | ||||||
| ,, Diarrhoea and Enteritis (under 2 years of age) | 38 | |||||