[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar].

  • Poplar (London, England). Board of Works.
Date:
[1897]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    2 for the year 1896, which was taken to enable certain taxation arrange ments to be adequately dealt with, showed that the estimated population of the parish of Poplar was slightly under-estimated, and that of Bromley considerably over-estimated. This census also showed that the estimated population of Registration London at the beginning of the year 1896 in use by the Registrar General, was 14,463 more than it should be if worked out upon the figures of the quinquennial census for 1896 and the census for 1891. The Registrar General based his figures upon the enumerations of the years 1881 and 1891. The Poplar and Bromley figures were also based upon the enumerations of the figures of the censuses for those years, and estimated as if the population increased in the same ratio per million of the metropolitan population for the year under observation. The following figures were the estimated populations to the middle of the year 1896 based upon the censuses of 1881 and 1891, before the census of 1896 was obtained:— Registration Poplar. Bromley. London. 4,435,955 57,782 73,295 but after the quinquennial census of 1896 the populations estimated to the middle of the year, on the theory of the basis of the rate of change between the censuses of 1891 and 1896 being maintained, are— Registration Poplar. Bromley. London. 4,421,492* 57,829 69,803 being 59.2 inhabitants per acre in Registration London, 49.6 per acre in Poplar, and 114.8 in Bromley, and these estimated populations are the figures used in calculating the various rates in the present report. The rates for past years have been calculated upon amended estimated populations, and, with the exception of that for the year * Afterwards amended to 4,421,955.
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