London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
View report page
Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1900
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]
This page requires JavaScript
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Boards' hospitals, after being detained in those institutions some days were returned home certified as not suffering from the complaint or any other notifiable disease.
| Parish. | Disease with which Patient was admitted into Metropolitan Asylums Boards Hospital. | Date of Admission. | Report from Hospital. | Date of Report. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1899. | 1900. | |||
| Poplar | Scarlet Fever | 18th Dec. | Not a case | 3rd Jan. |
| Bromley | Typhoid Fever | 16th „ | „ | 19th „ |
| 1900. | ||||
| „ | Diphtheria | 8th March | „ | 22nd March |
| „ | „ | 6th „ | „ | 27th „ |
| „ | Scarlet Fever | 19th „ | „ | 30th „ |
| Poplar . | Typhoid ,, | 20th „ | „ | 9th April |
| „ | Diphtheria | 11th April | „ | 21st „ |
| Bromley | „ | 10th „ | Scarlet Fever | 11th „ |
| „ | „ | 28th Feb. | *Scarlet Fever | 5th May |
| „ | Continued Fever | 4th May | Typhus Fever | 7th „ |
| Scarlet Fever | 14th April | N ot a case | 8 th „ | |
| „ | Diphtheria | 17th May | Typhoid Fever | 18 th „ |
| Poplar | Typhoid Fever | 29th „ | Puerperal ,, | 31st „ |
| Bromley | Diphtheria | 13th June | Scarlet Fever | 14th June |
| „ | „ | 9th ,, | Not a case | 16th ,, |
| Poplar | „ | 15th „ | „ | 21st „ |
| Bromley | „ | 24th May | „ | 27th „ |
| Poplar | „ | 1st June | „ | 27th „ |
| „ | Typhoid | 22nd May | „ | 7th July |
| Bromley | Diphtheria | 25th June | *Scarlet Fever | 11th Aug. |
| Poplar | „ | 11th Aug. | ‡ „ | 13th „ |
| „ | Scarlet Fever | 17th „ | Not a case | 19th „ |
| „ | Diphtheria | 26th „ | Scarlet Fever | 26th „ |
| „ | Typhoid Fever | 2nd ,, | Not a case | 29th „ |
| „ | „ | 9th „ | „ | 29 th „ |
| „ | Diphtheria | 21st July | *Scarlet Fever | 20th Sept. |
| Bromley | „ | 20th „ | Not a case | 26th ,, |
| „ | „ | 18th Sept | *Scarlet Fever | 24th Oct, |
| „ | „ | 28th „ | *Scarlet Fever | 25th ,, |
| „ | „ | 25th Oct. | „ | 30th ,, |
| „ | „ | 1st Nov. | „ | 6th Nov. |
| „ | „ | 19th „ | „ | 21st „ |
| „ | Typhoid Fever | 2nd „ | Not a case | 3rd Dec. |
| Poplar | Diphtheria | 8th ,, | „ | 13th „ |
* Following. ‡As well as.
One case of diphtheria in Poplar and three of diphtheria and one
of scarlet fever in Bromley were connected with milk shops in
Bromley. The London County Council was communicated with