London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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All samples of milk were returned by the Public Analyst free of boric
acid or other preservative.
Canal Boats.
Under the Canal Boats Acts and regulations, ten registered
canal boats were visited and found to conform with the requirements
of the Act.
Verminous Rooms.
Seven verminous rooms were required to be cleansed in conformity
with the provisions of the London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1902.
Tuberculosis.
Fifty-five new cases of Tuberculosis were notified as against 58
for the previous twelve months, 68 for the year preceding, and 101 for
the first year of notification.
General.
The cowsheds, milkshops, coffee houses and places of every description
where food is prepared for human consumption have been subjected
to observation and inspection from time to time.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
ALFRED J. FIELD, A.R.San.I., M.S.I.A.,
Sanitary Inspector, and Inspector under
the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts and
Inspector of Canal Boats.