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Bromley.
Metropolitan Asylums Boards' Hospitals 33
London Hospital 15
Greenwich Hospital 1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital 1
Sick Asylum 2
Metropolitan Hospital 1
53
Eight cases sent to various hospitals, 5 in Poplar and 3 in Bromley,
were returned home (see list page 23) as not suffering from typhoid
fever. No deductions for these cases have been made in any of the
figures given above.
Nineteen Poplar parishioners died from typhoid fever, and 12 fatal
cases occurred among the Bromley patients.
The typhoid fever cases occurred for the most part, as will be seen,
during the last quarter of the year.
1st Quarter.
2nd Quarter.
3rd Quarter.
4th Quarter.
Total.
Poplar
27
9
19
88
143
Bromley
16
13
16
47
92
43
22
35
135
235
During the last quarter of the year when Typhoid Fever prevailed,
great difficulty was experienced in obtaining the removal of patients,
as many as fifteen being kept waiting at onetime. Several cases had to
seek relief from the Parish and desired to be admitted into the Sick
Asylum. This could not be granted through the existing instructions
of the Local Government Board. Learning of the great distress,
Mr. Crooks interested himself in the matter, and, for the time being,
cases which applied to the Relieving Officers were admitted into the
Sick Asylum.