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Poplar 1902
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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To the Medical Officer of Health.
31st December, 1902.
Sir,—
I beg to submit to you my first Annual Report of the workcarried
out by me in the Borough of Poplar, respecting houses let in
lodgings.
During the early months of the year small-pox was prevalent,
and I assisted wherever I possibly could, acting under your
instructions.
The total number of houses that are on the Register is 281, the
number registered during the year being 157. Many of these houses
required to be re-registered more than once during the same period.
The 281 houses are situated in the various districts of the as per statement below:—
| Bow | 35 |
| Bromley | 166 |
| Poplar | 68 |
| Millwall and Cubitt Town .. | 12 |
| Total | 281 |
The total number of rooms that have had their cubical capacity
ascertained being 698.
These rooms are either used as day or day and night rooms.
One hundred and thirty cases of overcrowding have been found
to exist; 125 of these cases have been abated, either by the occupants
of the houses having to leave the premises or by distribution
of the same throughout the rooms of the house.
In the remaining five cases, owing to the capacity of the rooms
being such a little short of the standard required by the bye-laws,
it was suggested by the Public Health Committee that no action
should be taken.