Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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146 cases in Poplar (Sub-District) were removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals, 203 in Bromley and 70 in Bow. One
patient in Poplar was treated in the London Fever Hospital. So that
420 patients out of 471 notified cases in the Borough were isolated.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVER.
No cases of continued fever were notified during the year. A case
of typhoid fever removed to the Brook Fever Hospital from Poplar was
re-notified as being one of typhus fever; patient had been working on a
bad drain.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Notifications; Rate per 1000 Living; Drainage of Premises;
Isolation; Shellfish and Predisposing Causes; Errors in
Diagnosis; Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful
and Convalescent Cases; Deaths.
Notifications.
The Typhoid Fever cases notified were:—
Poplar | Bromley. | Bow. | Borough of Poplar. | |
---|---|---|---|---|
1893 | 80 | 218 | 64 | 362 |
1894 | 72 | 84 | 45 | 201 |
1895 | 56 | 80 | 34 | 170 |
1896 | 85 | 68 | 33 | 186 |
1897 | 61 | 87 | 47 | 195 |
1898 | 68 | 51 | 38 | 157 |
1899 | 143 | 92 | 34 | 269 |
1900 | 90 | 100 | 78 | 268 |
1901 | 46 | 88 | 37 | 171 |
1902 | 77 | 83 | 49 | 209 |
1903 | 34 | 38 | 21 | 93 |
1904 | 32 | 39 | 22 | 93 |