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Poplar 1919

Annual report for the year 1919 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 6O
Glanders—London (Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907 60
Hydrophobia 60
Puerperal Fever—Number of Cases, Deaths 61
Small-pox 61
Vaccination—Vaccination Returns, 1918 & 1919 61
Erysipelas 62
Scarlet Fever 63
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 67
Measles—Deaths, Outworkers 69
"Spotted Fever" (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis) 69
Acute Polio-Myelitis or Acute Polio-Encephalitis and Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica 71
Diarrhoea and Enteritis, Deaths, Notification of Zymotic Enteritis and Summer
Diarrhoea 71
Inquests and Deaths from Violence 73
Mortuary—Number of Bodies Received into Council's Cottage Street Mortuary 74
Canal Boats 74
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries and Outworkers 75
Table A—-Number of Inspections 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 75
Table B—Lists of Trades, Workshops, &c. 76
Tables C, D, E and F—Filled in at the request of the Secretary of State, Factories,
Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, Homework, &c. 78-81
Bakehouses—Inspections 81
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 82
Hairdressers' Premises 82
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 82
Smoke Nuisances 83
Ic Cream 83
Food and Drugs Acts—Results of Analyses, Legal Proceedings, Preservatives
in Butter; Preservatives in Margarine 84
Houses Let in Lodgings or Occupied by Members of more than one Family—Work
of the Inspector 88
Housing—Housing Acts, 1890-1919; Housing (Inspection of District) Regulations,
1910; Representations and Closing Orders under Section 17; Determination
of Closing Orders Section 17 (6); Representations to London County Council
under the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, Part 1 88
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Verminous Rooms 90
Schools—Inspect'on of Schools 91
Rag Flock At. 91
Sanitary Inspectors' Work—Tabulated List of Sanitary Inspections, &c., Overcrowding,
General, Legal Proceedings 91
Report—
Miss Alice E. Hall (Chief Health Visitor) 100