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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 1900
[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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Bow Road, 8.
St. Leonard Street, 38, 40, 50, 90.
Box Street, 4, 6, 14, 35, 3.
Hawgood Street, 19, 20, 21, 22.
Powis Road, 42, 25, 41, 44.
Gale Street, 39, 51, 53.
Shepherd Street, 4, 11, 13, 15.
Whitethorn Street, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 37, 39.
Arnold Road, 7, 8, 10, 11.
Reeves Road, 2.
Bow Common Lane, 90, 102.
Blackthorn Street, 96, 98, 100.
Orwell Road, 42, 43, 44.
Spanby Road, 15.
Atlantic Wharf, Furze Street.
Mornington Road, 19.
Swaton Road, 51, 53, 55, 57, 59, 61.
Cantrell Road, 11, 12, 13, 17, 25, 26, 27, 28.
Knapp Road, 7, 23, 25.
Perring Street, 21, 22, 1, 2, 3, 4.
Wellington Road, 30, 69.
Campbell Road, 93, 95, 97, 99, 101, 180, 182, 184, 186, 192.
Merchant Street, 16.
Bruce Road, 104.
Furze Street, 7.
Franklin Street, 21, 22, 23, 24.
By your directions I have obtained 55 samples of food and drugs
for analysis. Legal proceedings were instituted against four vendors
and convictions were obtained, the penalties inflicted by the presiding
magistrates varying from £4 to £6 3s.
The nature of articles, extent of adulteration, and results of policecourt
proceedings were as follows :
Milk Adulterated with 9 per cent, of water, deficient in