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Poplar 1893
POP B1
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
MEDICAL 0FFICER OF HEALTH
for
BOW DISTRICT,
Comprising the Parish of St. Mary Stratford-le-Bow.
To the Members of the Poplar District Board of Works.
Gentlemen,
I have the honor to submit my annual report as Medical
Officer for the North or Bow District, together with the reports of the
Sanitary Inspectors of that district, and the report of the Inspector of
Nuisances in Manufactories, so far as it concerns the parish of Bow.
It should be borne in mind that the period reviewed by this report
is for the twelve months ending the 31st December, 1893, and that
the statistics and the tables, prepared according to the requirements
of the Local Government Board, cover the same period. While
these statistics refer only to the parish of Bow, consequent upon the
arrangements of the sanitary districts which took place last year on
the 1st of April, Bromley then being joined to Poplar for sanitary
administrative purposes, leaving Bow solely to my care, the parish
of Bromley was for the first three months of 1893, under my supervision,
and the statistics for that period relating to Bromley are given
separately. The annual death rates for Bromley I am, therefore, unable
to present to you. In comparing the figures of work done, or
mortality rates, or diseases statistics, with those in my last report, it
must not be forgotten that this alteration in the areas should be taken
into account, otherwise the comparisons will be misleading and totally
inaccurate.
B