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 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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Bromley (Sub-District).
| 15th April. Sick Asylum, found Son of unknown, in Momington Road. | Male, 16 mos. | Measles and whooping cough. |
| 6 th July. Sick Asylum, of Ship deck hand. Bombay. | Male, 30. | Acute pneumonia. |
| 1st July. Poplar Hospital, of 2nd Officer. Norway. | Male, 22. | Violent. Fractured skull and contuse d brain caused by falling through the opening into No. 5 tank, S.S. Ronald Amundsen. Acc. P ,M. Inq. |
| Bow (Sub-District). | ||
| llth April. Sick Asylum, found Son of unknown. N.L.R., Bow Station. | Male, 16 mos. | Measles and whooping cough. |
| llth Oct. River Lee, off 419, Unknown parent-Old Ford Road. age. | Male, about 5 mins. ' | Found dead. Want of attention at birth, but under what circumstances he was born and died, the evidence fails to prove. P.M. Inq. |
| 31st Oct. Duckett's Canal, off Unknown. Parnell Road Bridge | Female, about 5 mins. | Found dead. Want of attention at birth, but under what circumstances it was born and died, the evidence failed to prove. P.M. Inq. |