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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 1895
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]
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from scarlet fever, and Dr. MacCombie was laid aside for four and a
half months suffering from diphtheria."
The following is the list of cases with the origin of the complaint
in each instance so far as this was obtainable:—
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BROMLEY.
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Only one of the above cases died, the male aged 63 years with confluent
small pox, removed from 1, Spanby Road.
Two communications were received from the Local Government
Board, dated 2nd and 13th August, respecting the increase of smallpox
in the Metropolis. The first letter stated that the " The cir-