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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 1904

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

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Public Health Offices,
Bow Road, e.,
December Slut, 1904.
To the Medical Officer of Health.
SIR —
I beg to submit to you the Annual Summary of the Sanitary
work and improvements carried out in the Bow East Division
during the year ending 31st December, 1904.

Table: Inspections have been made as follows: —

Inspections have been made as follows: —

On notifications of infectious diseases235
On complaints of nuisances992
On house-to-house visitation306

Table: following detailed works being executed: —

following detailed works being executed: —

Walls and ceilings of houses cleaned[ throughout21
partially89
Yards and areas paved7
Yards and areas drained37
Inlets to drains properly trapped11
Defective drains repaired48
Drains opened and cleansed142
Sink waste pipes properly disconnected from drains2
Rain-water do. do. do.1
Water laid on to soil pans of W.C.'s38
New soil pans provided where broken or unsuitable19
Foul soil pans cleansed52
Roof guttering and rain-water pipes repaired85
Roofs made watertight81
Water supplies to houses reinstated12