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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 1905
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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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:—
| Apl. 24 | Female 23 years | Pekin Street | Had teen eating salt pork, which had upset her. |
| May 3 | Female 19 years | Usher Road | Had eaten tinned salmon. |
| July 31 | Male 11 years | Cottage Street | Had heen bathing in Thames and supposed to have swallowed some of the water. |
| Aug. 2 | Male 24 years | Havannah Street | Had been eating tinned lobster. |
| Aug. 25 | Male 43 years | Highland Street | Patient run down after being out of work for five months. |
| Aug. 25 | Female 14 years | Bickmore Street | Smells from outside street gully. |
| Aug. 28 | Female 44 years | Trego Road | Said to have been caused by having been knocked about. |
| Sept. 19 | Male 12 years | Trego Road | Contacts with above. |
| Sept. 19 | Female 9 years | ||
| Sept. 19 | Male 6 years | ||
| Sept. 25 | Male 27 years | Hale Street | W.C. foul and dilapidated. |
| Sept. 26 | Female 23 years | Rothbury Road | Brought from Hospital in East Ham 16th Sept., 1905, where she had been for six weeks. |
| Oct. 9 | Male 10 years | Old Ford Road | Had been staying at Sid cup for 14 days, water from tap—no well nor stream. |
| Nov. 17 | Male 19 years | Cardigan Road | Returned from South Africa nine weeks ago. Suffered from boils on voyage home. |
Eleven cases sent to various hospitals, 3 in Poplar, 8 in Bromley,
and none in Bow were certified (see list, pages 54, 55, 56 and 57) as
not suffering from Typhoid Fever:—So that in the 70 notified
cases, 11 patients were returned home as not suffering from the
complaint.
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