Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Male
Male
Male
Female
Female
Male
Male
Female
Female
Male
Male
Male
Male
Female
Female
Female
35 years
27 years
14 years
17 years
19 years
19 years
18 3 ears
2 years
4 years
6 years
10 years
3 years
6 years
11 years
16 years;
28 years.
Mostyn Road
Favonia Street
Rothbury Road
Willis Street
Brabazon Street
Phiebc Court
Glengall Road
Hill Place Streel
Empson Street
, Hale Street..
Shock from burning by
acid.
. Defective and obstructed
drain.
Open sewer in Wansbeck
Road.
Employed at Hotel in
Aldgate. Water drawn
from well.
House dirty. Said to
have been caused by
shock from watching
removal of patient in
same street.
Surface gulley in Court
had been open some
days.
Father had died of heart
disease, body kept in
house seven days.
Drain defective, houso
foul, had visited patient
at Canning Town.
Drain defective, bad
smells from rubbish in
next door yard
Patient had visited a
sister suffering from
Typhoid Fever, about
six weeks ago.
Eleven cases sent to various hospitals, 4 in Poplar, 5 in Bromley,
and 2 in Bow were certified (see list, pages 33 and 34) as not
suffering from Typhoid Fever.
Forty-eight specimens of blood from doubtful cases of Typhoid
l'ever were forwarded to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.
Tn 14 instances (29.1 per cent.) the Typhoid (Widal) reaction was
obtained.
1'our Poplar parishioners died from Typhoid Fever, 6 fatal
cases occurred among the Bromley patients, and 6 among the Bow,
waking a total of 16 deaths in 82 cases:—i.e., in the 93 notified
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