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ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
for the
SOUTH DISTRICT,
Comprising the Parishes of All Saints Poplar, and
Bromley Saint Leonard.
To the Chairman and Members o/ the Board of Works for the Poplar
District.
Gentlemen,
I had the honour to be elected Medical Officer of Health
for the parishes of Poplar and Bromley on the 21st of March, 1893,
and the appointment was sanctioned by the Local Government Board
on the 30th day of the same month. This Report dates from and
includes the 2nd of April, and comprises the last three quarters of the
year 1893. The vital statistics of the Poplar parish for the first
quarter of the year ending April 1st have been dealt with by my predecessor,
Dr. Corner, his tables are appended to this Report, and his
commentary as to the sanitary condition of the District for the like
time has already appeared in his last Annual Report, 1892 to 1893.
My colleague, Dr. Talbot, deals with the vital statistics of the Bromley
parish for the same quarter, because he acted during that period as
Medical Officer thereof.
RE-ARRANGEMENT OF DISTRICT AND RE-ORGANISATION
OF SANITARY DEPARTMENT.
The first duty I was called upon to perform was to consider
the re-arrangement of the divisions of the district, and the reorganisation
of the work of the Sanitary Department. The
Board, acting on my report to the Sanitary Committee, resolved
to divide Poplar into two sub-districts, viz., South Poplar,
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