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Poplar 1903

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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the 20th April. The Medical Officer of Bethnal Green was
communicated with.
It was evident that the disease must have been contracted
out of the district, and thinking that in the Institution at
Bath from which the patient was discharged there might
be other inmates with the premonitory symptoms of Smallpox,
the officials of the Institution at Bath were telephoned
to ; the answer was that two cases of Small-pox had been
removed on the 16th April, and others since.
Two cases which occurred outside the Borough on the
20th April were stepsons of the case from Ford Road. One
stepson aged 19 years was removed from Rotherhithe, and
the other aged 18 years was removed from Bethnal Green.
5.—29th April.—Male, aged 8 years. Council's Shelter,
from Ford Road. Vaccinated for the first time 22nd April.
6.—29th April.—Female, aged 10 years. Council's
Shelter, from Ford Road. Vaccinated for the first time
21st April.
7.—30th April.—Female, aged 2 years. Council's
Shelter, from Ford Road. Vaccinated for the first time
21st April.
8.—1st May.—Male, aged 6 years. Council's Shelter,
from Ford Road. Vaccinated for the first time 21st April.
9.—1st May.—Female, aged 10 months. Council's
Shelter, from Ford Road. Vaccinated for the first time
21st April.
10.—8th May.—Male, aged 28 years, Roman Road, Bow,
vaccinated in infancy. Was a friend of the patient from
Ford Road, and had visited him before he was removed to