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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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SMALL POX.
No case of Small-pox was notified within the Borough during the year. 74 cases were notified in the Metropolitan Boroughs, as follows*:—
| London | 74 | ||
| WEST DISTRICTS. | EAST DISTRICTS. | ||
| Paddington | 2 | Shoreditch | 2 |
| Kensington | — | Bethnal Green | 4 |
| Hammersmith | — | Stepney | 13 |
| Fulham | — | Poplar | — |
| Chelsea | — | ||
| City of Westminster | 2 | SOUTH DISTRICTS. | |
| NORTH DISTRICTS. | Southwark | ||
| St. Marylebone | — | Bermondsey | |
| Hampstead | — | ||
| Lambeth | — | ||
| St. Pancras | 3 | ||
| Battersea | — | ||
| Islington | 3 | ||
| Wandsworth | 1 | ||
| Stoke Newington | 1 | ||
| Camberwell | 13 | ||
| Hackney | 4 | ||
| Deptford | 2 | ||
| CENTRAL DISTRICTS. | Greenwich | 4 | |
| Holborn | 1 | Lewisham | 9 |
| Finsbury | 1 | Woolwich | 7 |
| City of London | — | Port of London | 2 |
The Greenwich Borough Council called attention to a case of
Small-pox which had occurred in the Borough, the patient having
come from the West Coast of Africa on a steamship on which
Small-pox had occurred.
* Extract from "Lancet."