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 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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Anthrax 60
Glanders—London (Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907 60
Hydrophobia 60
Puerperal Fever-Number of Cases, Deaths 61
Small-pox 61
Vaccination—Vaccination Returns, 1917 61
Erysipelas 62
Scarlet Fever 62
Continued and Typhus Fevers 63
Typhoid Fever—Notifications, Rate per 1,000 Persons living, Errors in Diagnosis,
Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful Cases, Deaths 63
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)—Notifications, Deaths, Bacteriological
Examinations, Errors in Diagnosis, Isolation, Diphtheria Antitoxin (London)
Order, 1910 65
Whooping Cough—Deaths 67
Influenza—Deaths, etc 67
Measles—Digest of Measles and German Measles notified by Doctors and other
persons, Deaths, Outworkers 76
"Spotted Fever" (Epidemic Cerebro spinal Meningitis) 78
Acute Polio-Myelitis or Acute Polio-Encephalitis 79
Diarrhœa and Enteritis, Deaths, Notification of Zymotic Enteritis and Summer
Diarrhœa 79
Inquests and Deaths from Violence 81
Mortuary—Number of Bodies Received into Council's Cottage Street Mortuary 82
Canal Boats 82
Workshops. Workplaces, Laundries and Outworkers 83
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
Lot in Lodgings and Homeworkers' Premises 83
Table B—Lists of Trades, Workshops, &c. 84
Tables C, D, F, and F—Filled in at the request of the Secretary of State, Factories,
Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, Homework, &c. 86
Bakehouses—Inspections 89
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 90
Hairdressers' Premises 90
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 90
Smoke Nuisances 91
Ice Cream 91
Food and Drugs Acts—Results of Analyses, Legal Proceedings, Preservatives
in Butter; Preservatives in Margarine 92
Houses Let in Lodgings or Occupied by Members of more than one Family—Work
of the Inspector 96
Housing—Housing, Town Planning, &c., Act, 1909, Housing (Inspection of
District) Regulations, 1910; Representations and Closing Orders under Section
17; Determination of Closing Orders Section 17 (6) 96
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Verminous Rooms 97
Schools—Inspection of Schools 98
Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Tabulated List of Sanitary Inspections, &c., Overcrowding,
General, Legal Proceedings 99
Reports—
Miss Alice E. Hall (Health Visitor) and 104
Miss N. Brocklehurst (Second Health Visitor) 111