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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar]
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In twenty-eight European and American Cities, with an aggregate
population of more than nineteen millions, the death rate was 21.3
per 1000. The following death rates are interesting when compared
with one another:—
Poplar 21.6.
Bromley 20.3.
London 18.6.
Edinburgh 16.9.
Glasgow 20.4.
Dublin 24.9.
Paris 19.0.
Berlin 17.9.
Vienna 22.3.
Moscow 38.9.
St. Petersburg 30.9.
Trieste 27.9.
Buda-Pesth 25.4.
Breslan 25.1.
Venice 25.0.
Calcutta 33.0.
Madras 37.8.
Bombay 41.5.
Cairo 55.2.
Alexandria 42.4.