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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 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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June 13th Male £9 years St. Leonard's Road Had eaten some oysters three
weeks previously.
Dec. 16th Female 20 years Pier Street .. Recently confined and had been
eatint; mussels.
Respecting the stated causes and predisposing influences of some of the other cases, they are given below as received from the patients or their friends:—
| Feb. 6th | Male | 30 years) | Chilcot Street | Had been suffering from Influenza. |
| Male | 5 years) | |||
| May 10th | Male | 10 years | Plevna Street | Fell in a pond on Easter Monday and walked about all day in wet clothes. Had been eating ice cream. |
| June 20th | Male | 19 years | Furze Street | Had been eating ice cream. |
| July 3rd | Male | 45 years | Sophia Street | Just come home from the Cape. |
| Aug. 18th | Male | 58 years | Marshfield Street | Had been ill in bed three weeks. No idea as to source of infection. |
| Aug. 21st | Male | 16 years | Hawgood Street | Had been bathing in Victoria Park Lake. |
| Aug. 22nd | Male | 9 years | Blair Street | The elder patient had been on holiday at Biggleswade, returned home unwell. The other patient had slept with him. Had been a case of fever at the house where he had stayed. |
| Male | 5 years | |||
| Sept. 5th | Male | 9 years | Usher Road | Had been bathing in Victoria Park Lake and had swallowed some of the water. |
| Sept. 6th | Male | 9 years | Stewart's Terrace | Had been bathing in River Thames about a fortnight ago and was unwell soon after. |
| Sept. 20th | Male | 12 years | Quickett Street | Occurred in London Hospital. |
| Sept. 29th. | Female | 4 years | Ida Street | Premises in foul state. A brother-in-law had been visited a fortnight previously who was subsequently removed into the Brook Fever Hospital and died there. |
| ,, | Female | 10 years | ||
| 11 | Female | 6 years | ||
| ,, | Female | 28 years | ||
| Oct. 9th | Female | 2½ years | ||
| Oct. 10th | Female | 29 years | ||
| Oct. 8th | Male | 2 years | Mellisli Street | Had been on holiday at Paddock Wood, Kent. Had eaten sour apples and not been well since. (Removed to Eastern Hospital, but returned on 13th November as not having had the disease.) |
| Oct. 10th | Male | 29 years | Admitted into Poplar Workhouse 26th September from the Farm Colony at Laindon and transferred on the 8th October to Sick Asylum with Ague and Epilepsy. | |
| Oct. 27th | Male | 17 years | Ailsa Street | Alleged to be due to bad smells from drains in docks. |