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Poplar 1918
Annual report for the year 1918 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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Public Health Department,
Bow Road, E. 3,
January lst, 1919.
Sir,
I beg to present the eleventh Annual Report of my work, the fourth
under the Local Government Board's extended scheme for the Prevention
of Infantile Mortality. Arrangements are now in working order for
(1) the payment of Nurses for visiting cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Zymotic Enteritis and Measles when required ; (2) Sale of dried milk and
a galactagogue at cost price. Payment of doctor's fees when called to assist
a midwife in the delivery of a necessitous mother, is now undertaken by
the London County Council.
The visiting areas remain as before:—
Poplar Infant Welfart Association.
Undertake all the work south of the first bridges.
The Royal College of St. Katharine.
Undertake all the work between the first bridges and Bow Road
The Public Health Department.
Undertake all the work north of Bow Road.
The working arrangement between the above bodies and this
department has been slightly altered, each submit their own figures for the
monthly report, saving labour both to themselves and this Department.
The new arrangement is working smoothly.