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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 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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control of the Government to the Metropolitan Asylums Board,
and the establishment in the Provinces of Laboratories by the
various County' and County Borough Councils.
The Committee agreed in the importance of the provision of
an adequate supply of pure calf lymph for all Medical Practitioners,
and that the Metropolitan Asylums Board should be the
authority controlling such supply for London.

Table: SCARLET FEVER.The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three parishes, and the deaths which occured for the past eleven years were as follows: —

SCARLET FEVER.

The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three parishes, and the deaths which occured for the past eleven years were as follows: —

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1893Cases notified6278543131794
Deaths394813100
1894Cases notified239331225795
Deaths1222842
1895Cases notified3433303291002
Deaths2019847
1896Cases notified274429243946
Deaths819734
1897Cases notified2514763731100
Deaths6121028
1898Cases notified207325106638
Deaths313622
1899Cases notified142179102423
Deaths243
1900Cases notified24616885499
Deaths3317