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Poplar 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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TABLE V. (1937).

Cities and Boboughs.Estimated Resident population (Mid-1937)Live Births, Annual rate per 1,000 population.Death-rate per 1,000 population.Deaths of Infants under one year to 1,000 births.
LONDON4,094,50013.312.360
West Districts.CrudeAdjusted
Paddington138,30013.6513.0512.9166
Kensington175,60012.113.312.483
Hammersmith126,50015.112.613.068
Fulham138,90013.913.0813.256
Chelsea56,51010.814.112.059
City of Westminster124,3008.211.511.858.7
North Districts.
St. Marylebone92,1109.3613.1012.9873
Hampstead90,69011.211.610.954
St. Pancras181,90013.012.713.062
Islington295,40015.2512.913.0266
Stoke Newington50,25014.1112.512.037.5
Hackney206,70013.811.111.743.38
Central Districts.
Holborn34,6008.0911.8512.6879
Finsbury58,70013.814.615.971
City of London8,9806.111.212.436.3
East Districts.
Shoreditch82,24014.8612.4713.7254
Bethnal Green94,56013.312.514.154
Stepney203,10013.512.214.260.5
Poplar136,80015.512.614.061
South Districts.
Southwark147,40014.713.614.164
Bermondsey98,79014.412.314.059
Lambeth273,80014.113.213.068
Battersea143,50014.9412.8912.7670.43
Wandsworth341,70011.5312.3611.4362
Camberwell224,80014.0812.8312.8358
Deptford96,58015.111.812.345
Greenwich95,99013.8812.0312.2750
Lewisham226,00013.910.810.946
Woolwich149,40014.211.111.740

Note.—The information relating to London supplied by the Registrar-General
and that for individual Boroughs by the Medical Officers of Health.