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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 1916

Annual report for the year 1916 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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MODEL DWELLINGS.
Grosvenor, Council, and Hanbury Buildings.
Grosvenor Buildings have 542 tenements, the Council Buildings
contain 50, and Hanbury Buildings 35

Table: The notification of infectious diseases and the removals were as follows:—

The notification of infectious diseases and the removals were as follows:—

Total Cases.Notifications.Removals.
Zymotic Enteric.Chicken pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria and Membranous Croup.Typhoid Fever.Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.Puerperal Fever.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Erysipelas.Zymotic EntericSmall-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.Puerperal Fever.ErysipelasTotal.
Grosvenor Buildings3021...53............1......43...............
Council Buildings105......5........................5...............
Hanbury Buildings22...................................................

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Fourteen cases of Measles came to the notice of the Public Health
Department in connection with Grosvenor Buildings, 0 Hanbury
Buildings, and four in Council Buildings.

Table: The deaths were as follows:—

The deaths were as follows:—

Residents.Outlying.
Grosvenor Buildings1613
Council Buildings11
Hanbury Buildings05
1719