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Poplar 1904

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

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Streets and Places.Small-pox.Scarlet fever.Diphtheria A Mem. Croup.Enteric Fever.Typhus Fever.Chicken Pox.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Measles.Total.
Wendon street...36..........110
West Ferry road..2083..2171<>63
Weston street..11........114
Wharf road................11
W hite Post lane..........4..116
Whitethorn street..........2....1416
Wick lane................11
Willis street..141..2..2717
Wilson street..12....3..1310
Wiltshire Villas......1..........1
Winnipeg buildings..........1......1
Woodstock road..............112
Woolmore street....3........1610
Woollett street..11............2
Wright'8 road..15............6
Wyko road..23........1915
Wy vis street..16....2....413
Yatton Street..161..1....211
Zetland street....1........113

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CONFERENCE ON THE SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS
DISEASE BY VAGRANTS.
The attention of the London County Council was called to the
spread of small-pox through the agency of vagrants, and it was
suggested the Council should convene a Conference of the Sanitary
Authorities of England and Wales to consider the question. The
London County Council agreed to convene the Conference, and
on the 10th November at the County Hall, Spring Gardens, together
with Mr. Councillor Bacon, I attended a Conference on the "Spread
of Infectious Disease by Vagrants."
The following are the Resolutions adopted by the Conference.
GENERAL MEASURES FOR THE PREVENTION OF THE
SPREAD OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE BY VAGRANTS.
(1) (a) That this Conference of urban and sanitary authorities
of Kngland and Wales recognises the increasing amount of habituai
D