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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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Table: Mar.21 Female30 yearsCotall StreetDrain defective.

Mar.21 Female30 yearsCotall StreetDrain defective.

Aug.23 Female5 yearsPortree StreetHad been eating ice cream from itinerant vendor.
Aug.25 Male2^ yearsBan well StreetW.C. chokcd ten days previously.
Aug.31 Male52 yearsChiltern ltoadHad been to Boxrr.oor three weeks previously.
Aug.31 Male11 yearsDonald StreetHad been bathing in the Cut.
Sept.7 Male25 yoarsMelliBh StreetSoil pipe defective. Had had pork for dinner on Bank Holiday, and been unwell eTer since.
Sept.15 Male4 2 yearsKerbey StreetShoik from Gas explosion at works.
Sept.16 Male12 yearsManilli StretHad been "hopping" at Yalding.
Sept.19 Female70 yearsBow LaneDrain had been opened up three weeks previously.
Sept.27 Male16 yearsGrundy StreetDrain defectiTe.
Sept.30 Male27 yearsGiraud StreetJust out of prison.*
Oct.7 Male21 yearsBygrove StreetFright in night—Father dying. Had to turn out to fetch Doctor.
Not.4 Male10 yearsBygrove StreetDrain recently opened for repairs.
Nor.4 Male11 yearsParnell BoadHad buried a dead cat that had been sick some time previously.
Nov.15 Male6 yearsKerby StreetHad had a fall on his head

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* Governor of Prison conmunicated witb.
Nine cases sent to various hospitals, 3 in Poplar, 5 in Bromley,
and 1 in Bow were certified (see list, pages 34, 35 and 36) as not
suffering from Typhoid Fever:—So that in the 93 notified cases,
9 patients were returned home as not suffering from the complaint.
Thirty-four specimens of blood from doubtful cases of Typhoid
Fever were forwarded to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine.
In 6 instances (17.6 per cent.) the Typhoid (Widal) reaction was
obtained.
One Poplar parishioner died from Typhoid Fever, 7 fatal