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SECTION A
VITAL STATISTICS
The Registrar General estimated that at the middle of 1954 the home population
numbered 71,690 which was 780 less than in 1953. This decrease was due to the
movement of some 1,330 residents to dwellings outside the Borough because the
number of births exceeded the number of deaths by 554 during 1954.
The birth rate at 17.7 per 1,000 of the population is slightly less than the
rate for the previous year (18.0). In order to compare the rate with other areas
and with the country as a whole the Registrar General provides a Comparability
Factor which takes into account the proportions of old or young people and the
proportions of male and female in the area so that a fair comparison can be made.
Using this factor the adjusted birth rate would be 15.9 as compared with 15.2 for
England and Wales.
The death rate in Poplar was 9.98 per 1,000 of the population. Again using
the comparability factor the adjusted rate would be 11.4 as compared with a rate
of 11.3 for England and Wales. This shows a reduction from the figures for 1953
which were 12.0 and 11.4 respectively.
The infant mortality rate being the number of deaths of infants under one
year of age per 1,000 births was 25.1. This compares with the figure of 25.5 for
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