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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 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The institutions and localities in which the deaths happened were: —
| Children's Hospital, Shadwell | 1 |
| Fever Hospital, Brook | 1 |
| Fever Hospital, Eastern | 1 |
| London Hospital | 2 |
| Poplar Hospital | 1 |
| Poplar Union Workhouse | 1 |
| Sick Asylum | 9 |
| Total | 16 |
The mortality for the above buildings for the past nine years is
as follows: —
1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903.
36 48 32 39 44 31 62 39 44
Mr. Lough, Clerk to the Guardians, has been good enough to
furnish me with the following information for the year 1903 : —
Three visiting medical orders were issued for the Council Buildings,
Yabsley Street, and 10 visiting, and 5 Dispensary medical
orders were given for Hanbury Buildings, King Street.
So fax as Grosvenor Buildings are concerned, 25 Dispensary
medical orders, and 22 orders for the Medical Officer to see patients
at their own homes were issued. There were also on the permanent
medical relief list 22 persons residing in the Buildings who were
entitled to apply for medical attendance at any time.
The following figures are the number of parish medical orders
issued during the respective years: —
Hanbury Buildings.
1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899. 1900. 1901. 1902. 1903.
22 30 11 18 11 5 5 8 15