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To the Mayor, Aldermen and Councillors
of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar.
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to submit my Annual Report for the year 1950.
The undermentioned items call for particular comment.
General Standard of Health.
The general standard of health of the inhabitants of the Borough
continued to be satisfactory. The total number of notifications of
compulsorily notifiable disease showed a considerable decrease as
compared with last year, mainly due to the decreased number of cases
of Measles.
Vital Statistics.
The Population for the year is given by the Registrar-General as
74,050 as compared with 74,640 for the previous year.
The Birth Rate for the year is 16.7 per 1,000 estimated population,
that of the previous year being 18.3, and of the country as a whole 15.8.
The Infantile Mortality Rate is 27.6, the rate for England and Wales
being 29.8.
The Recorded Death Rate for the Borough is 10.8 per 1,000
estimated population, that for England and Wales 11.6, a decrease in
comparison with the previous year due to the decrease in deaths from
diseases of the circulatory and respiratory systems.
Housing.
The provision of adequate housing accommodation is still a major
problem in the Borough but in this connection the Council is making
every effort consistent with its resources to improve the situation.
During the year work has progressed on the Lansbury Neighbourhood
in which the exhibition of Live Architecture will form part of the Festival
of Britain Exhibition and in this connection it is possible to place on
record that the efforts being made to improve the environmental conditions
in this badly blitzed borough are taking shape and will provide on
completion for a healthier and happier existence to those who withstood
the trials of an intensive air war so bravely and who have suffered so
much as a result thereof.
A survey of two areas included in the preliminary survey of 1949
has been completed and indications as to procedure given.
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