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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 1898
Annual report, year 1898, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District
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Priory Street, 12.
Hawgood Street, 7, 18.
James Street, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, back areas.
Stewart's Cottages, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Washington Street, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 30, 32, 34, 36, 14.
Rountton Road, 55 and 57.
Love Lane, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
Burdett Street, 2, 3, 4.
Knapp Road, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32,
34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46.
Swaton Road, 40A, 42A, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 39.
Bow Road, 106, 118, 30.
Botolph Road, 41, 43, 45, 47, 49.
Quickett Street, 64.
Tryphena Place, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Arnold Road, 9, 28, 29, 30, 31.
Glaucas Street, 36, 38.
Ireton Street, 56.
Empson Street, 36, 40, 42, 44, 46, 48, 50, 52, 54, 56.
Bow Common Lane, 34.
Egleton Road, 10.
Lingen Street, 8, 16, 30, 32, 34.
Oil Wharf, Violet Road.
By your directions I have obtained 46 samples of food and drugs
for analysis. Legal proceedings were instituted against eight vendors
and convictions were obtained, the penalties inflicted by the presiding
magistrate varying from 10s. to £10.
The nature of article, extent of adulteration, and results of police-court proceedings were as follows:—
| Lime Water | Deficient in lime to the extent 81.6 per cent. and made with ordinary instead of distilled water. Vendor fined 23s. and 40s. costs. |