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Medical Officer. I inspected the water-courses of the district, and
found them in very fair condition."
"On the 2nd March, 1893, the Clerk to the Board, under instructions,
informed the Medical Officer to the London County Council,
that in the unfortunate event of an outbreak of cholera, the Board
would be fully prepared to take whatever steps might be necessary to
grapple with the emergency."
Typhus and Enteric Fever.
Bow, and for the first three months, Bromley, show a clean record
in the matter of typhus fever, from which in all London during 1893
there were 5 deaths, one of these being in Poplar. This is the third
successive year in Bow in which there has not been any death from
typhus.
In London there were 675 deaths from enteric fever, and 20 deaths
from continued fever, the Poplar District contributing 62 cases of
enteric fever, but none of continued fever.
In Bow during the year the deaths due to enteric fever were 15,
and 2 for the first quarter in Bromley. As far as Bow is concerned
this is an increase on the figures for 1892, when the death rate was
0.24; the death rate for 1893 being 0.36.
The Bow record since 1880 is-
Bow—1880 2 1887 8
1881 2 1888 15
1882 13 18894
1883 11 1890 9
1884 9 1891 12
1885 5 1892 10
1886 4 1893 15
Influenza.
The tables of the Local Government Board make no provision for
recording the deaths attributed to influenza, these having to be placed