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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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Isolation.
Five cases in Poplar, three in Bromley and one in Bow were removed
to various hospitals, as follows:—
POPLAR (Sub-District).
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals 5
BROMLEY.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals 2
Sick Asylum 1
3
BOW.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital 1
Errors of Diagnosis.
Two cases sent to Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals from Poplar
were certified as not suffering from typhoid fever
Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful Cases.
Twelve specimens of blood from doubtful cases of typhoid fever were
forwarded to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. Jn two instances
(16.6 per cent.) the typhoid (Widal) reaction was obtained.
Deaths.
One Poplar patient died from typhoid fever, making a total of one death
in 10 (corrected) cases.