[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough] page 78

Poplar 1904

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

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Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals	14
Sick Asylum	1
Mildmay Mission Hospital	1
St. Bartholomew's Hospital	1
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Twelve cases of Typhoid Fever were stated by the patients or their friends to be due to the eating of shell-fish:—

Aug.	26 Female	15 years	Wansbeck Road	Had been to Southend and had some cockles.
Aug.	26 Female	37 years	,,	Had been to Southend and had some cockles.
Sept.	8 Male	31 years	Arcadia Stret t	Had eaten mussels 10 or 12 days previously.
Sept.	21 Male	29 years	Maverton Road	Had been eating mussels.
Sept.	21 Male	22 years	Comboss Road	Had been to Southend, and had some cockles.
Oct.	4 Female	28 years	Morville Street	Had been to Ramegate a week, had J-doz. oysters. Had been ill previous to visit.
Nov.	11 Male	12 years	Broomfield Street	Had eaten whelks from stall about 14 days previously.
Nov.	15 Male	13 years	Chrisp Street	Had eaten shell fish off barrow.
Nov.	15 Female	53 years	Alfred Street	Had Bome oysters in City 3 or 4 weeks previously.
Nov.	19 Female	33 years	Norris Road	Living on fish. Had eaten some escallops.
Dec.	12 Male	23 years	Morant Street	Had eaten shell-fish about 14 dayb previously.
Dec.	13 Male	22 years	Cadogan Terrace	Had been in habit of having mussels twice a week— sometimes raw.

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Respecting the stated causes and predisposing influences of other cases, they are given below as received from the patients or their friends:—