Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
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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Verminous Children attending School—London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1907, Children Act, 1908, Number of Verminous Children Bathed, Itch
Cases 79
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 80
Verminous Persons in Common Lodging-Houses—London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1907, Number of Persons Cleansed from Common Lodging Houses
within and without the Borough, Agreement with the London County Council
as to the Bathing of Inmates of Common Lodging Houses without the Borough 81
Port Sanitary Notices 82
Plague 82
Anthrax 82
Glanders—London (Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907 82
Hydrophobia 82
Puerperal Fever—Number of Cases, Deaths 83
Small-pox 85
Vaccination 85
Erysipelas 86
Scarlet Fever 87
Continued and Typhus Fevers 87
Typhoid Fever—Notifications, Rate per 1,000 Persons living, Drainage of Premises,
Isolation, Shell-fish and Predisposing Causes, Errors in Diagnosis, Bacteriological
Examinations of Doubtful and Convalescent Cases, Deaths 87
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)—Notifications, Sex and School Age,
Deaths, Bacteriological Examinations, Errors in Diagnosis, Condition of
House Drainage, Isolation, Diphtheria Antitoxin (London) Order, 1910,
Diphtheria and London County Council Schools 92
Whooping Cough—Deaths 96
Influenza—Deaths 90
Measles—Digest of Measles and German Measles notified by Doctors and other
persons, Deaths, Schools, Closure of Classrooms, Admission of non-pauper
cases into Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, Local Government
Board Order, Milkshops, Outworkers, Disinfection, Compulsory Notification
of Measles and German Measles, Suggested Repayment of Fees 97
"Spotted Fever" (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis) 109
Acute Polio-Myelitis or Acute Polio-Encephalitis 111
Diarrhœa and Enteritis, Notification of Zymotic Enteritis and Summer Diarrhœa 112
Inquests and Deaths from Violence 114
Mortuary—Number of Bodies Received into Council's Cottage Street Mortuary 115
Model Dwellings—Grosvenor, Council and Hanbury 116
Common Lodging Houses 119
Seamen's Lodging Houses 119
Canal Boats 120
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries and Outworkers—Registers and Inspections 120
Table A—Number of Inspection of, &c., of Bakehouses, Laundries, 'Workshops,
Workplaces, Places where Food is Prepared, Milk Premises, Cowsheds,
Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream Premises, Registered Houses
Let in Lodgings and Homeworkers' Premises 122
Table B—Lists of Trades, Workshops, &c 123
Tables C, D, E and F—Filled in at the request of the Secretary of State, Factories,
Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, Homework, &c. 125
Bakehouses—Inspections 128
Slaughterhouses and Cowhouses—Renewals of Licences 129
Offensive Trades—Number in Borough, London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1908, Section 9; Rag and Bone Dealers Proposed By-laws 130
Coffee Shops, Eating Houses, Fried Fish Shops, Hotels, Restaurants, &c., London
County Council (General Powers) Act, 1908—Sanitary Regulations for
Premises used for the Sale, &c., of Food for Human Consumption 131
Hairdressers' Premises 131
Milkshops—Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops Order, London County Council
(General Powers) Act, 1908, Power to Sanitary Authority to remove from or
refuse to enter on Register Names of Dairymen in Certain Circumstances 131
Smoke Nuisances 132
Ice Cream 132