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Public health Office.
Bow Road, E.3.
May, 1935.
To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my Report upon the health of the Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar for the year 1934.
The Report is not a "Survey" Report and the instructions of the
Ministry of Health have been followed as regards the recording of the
Council's activities, but as this is the first year in which the Royal College
of St. Katharine have submitted a comprehensive report of their work
this has been quoted in full.
Statistics.—The birth rate (15.5) and the crude death rate (12.3)
differ but slightly from the corresponding rates of the previous year.
The infantile mortality rate (62), while higher than that for 1933 which
was the lowest ever recorded in the Borough, is below the average for the
five years 1929-33.
Early in 1935 the Registrar-General issued a memorandum referring
to a "Comparability Factor for adjusting the Local Death Rates of 1931
and subsequent years.''
Briefly, the factor is calculated to adjust crude death rates to allow
for variation in local sex and age distribution of the population as compared
with the sex and age distribution of the population of England
and Wales as a whole.
The factor for Poplar is I.II, by which the crude death rate should
be multiplied in order to make it comparable, from a mortality point of
view, with the crude death rate of the country as a whole, or with the
mortality of any other local area, the crude death rate of which should be
similarly modified with its own factor for the purpose.