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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 1919

Annual report for the year 1919 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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70
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.*
Number of Cases.
Sixteen cases occurred within the Borough—5 Poplar, 9 Bromley,
and 2 Bow.

Table: Removals. Poplar (Sub-District).

Removals. Poplar (Sub-District).

Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals2
Sick Asylum2
Poplar Hospital1
East London Hospital1
6

Table: Bromley.

Bromley.

Sick Asylum2
Poplar Hospital1
London Hospital1
4

Table: Bow.

Bow.

Sick Asylum1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital1
2

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Ten patients died from Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis—4 Poplar, 4 Bromley
and 2 Bow
* Posterior basal meningitis is included in the term "cerebro-spinal fever," which
does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear disease, or injury