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Poplar 1904

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

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The South Dock Railway Station (M.E.R.) is also within the
jurisdiction of the London Port Sanitary Authority and joint inspection
was made with a Sanitary Inspector of that Authority.
There is a new railway station, namely Bow Road Station (Met.
and L.T. and S.R.), recently built, there was no need to inspect
this station.
CUSTOMS AND INLAND REVENUE ACT, 1890.
Cap. 8, Sect 26 (2).
REVENUE ACT, 1903.
3 Edw. 7, Cap. 46.
At the request of the London County Council certificates were
given by me that the following buildings let in tenements or flats
were so constructed as to afford suitable accommodation for each
of the families or persons inhabiting them, and that due provision
is made for their sanitary requirements: —
Ottawa and Baffin Buildings.
St. Lawrence Cottages.
Ontario and Hudson Buildings.
Quebec and Winnipeg Buildings.
Two hundred and sixty-six tenements in all.
SANITARY INSPECTORS' WORK, HOUSE TO HOUSE
INSPECTION, OVERCROWDING, &c., AND POLICE
COURT PROCEEDINGS.
After a short illness, Mr. F. J. Anthony, Sanitary Inspector and
Inspector under the Food and Drugs Acts, and Canal Boat
Inspector for the Bromley North Division, died on the
24th February.
Mr. Anthony had been in the service of the Poplar Sanitary
Authority since 1880, a period of 24 years. He first acted as
Disinfector, and having qualified himself by passing the