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Poplar 1901
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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ring in connection with the Infants' Department of the British Street
Board School, Millwall, I communicated with the Medical Officer
of the School Board for London, with the result that during the
Christmas holidajs the above department was disinfected.
DIARRHCEA.* Deaths from diarrhoea for the past nine years were as follows:—
| 1893. | 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 19OO. | 1901. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar | 54 | 20 | 52 | 61 | 46 | 66 | 82 | 48 | 65 |
| Bromley | 83 | 29 | 56 | 72 | 68 | 124 | 99 | 92 | 78 |
| Bow | 30 | 12 | 24 | 25 | 47 | 42 | 44 | 90 | 54 |
| Totals | 167 | 6l | 132 | 158 | 161 | 232 | 225 | 230 | 197 |
| London | 3446 | 1780 | 3600 | 3223 | 4104 | 4376 | 4196 | 3564 | 3931 |
For death rates see Tables XIV. and XV., page 21.
A death from Cholera, Syncope, and Exhaustion was registered in
Poplar. The deceased had suffered from Dysentery, but the
immediate cause of his fatal illness was attributed to eating watercress.
It has been pointed out again and again the grave danger of
eating such food grown in polluted waters. Washing and re-washing
should always be resorted to.
* Under the heading of " Diarrhoea" are included deaths certified as from
diarrhoea, alone or in combination with some other cause of ill-defined nature ; and
also deaths certified as from
Epidemic enteritis ;
Zymotic enteritis;
Epidemic diarrhoea. Summer diarrhoea;
Dysentery and dysenteric diarrhoea ;
Choleraic diarrhoea, cholera, cholera nostras (in the absence of Asiatic
cholera).
Under the heading of "nteritis" are included those certified as from
Gastro-enteritis, Muco-enteritis and Gastric catarrh.