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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During the year periodical inspections were made at factories,
workshops, ice cream shops, hairdressers' shops, coffee shops, fried fish
shops, and bakehouses, and a large amount of work and cleansing, etc.
was done to keep pace with the various Bye-Laws.
Most of the public house urinals were cleansed in the Spring of
the year.
I am, Sir,
Your obedient Servant,
WILLIAM JOHNSON, A.R. San.I.,
Cert. San. Insp. Examn. Board (Lond.)
Cert. Meat and Food Insp. {Lond.)
Sanitary Inspector and Inspector
under Sale of Food and Drugs and
Canal Boats Acts.