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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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London County Council (General Powers') Act a certificate must be given
by the Medical Officer of Health, who would have to inspect every room.

Table: During the year 333 rooms have been cleansed of vermin:—

During the year 333 rooms have been cleansed of vermin:—

Poplar South Division8
West Combined Division57
East Combined Division24
Bromley Central Division12
Bromley North Division60
Bow West Division67
Bow East Division68
Houses let in lodgings37

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Licensed Premises' Urinals.
Five notices were served under Section 22 calling upon the owners to
provide proper doors to the urinals attached to their licensed premises.
ANALYSIS OF FLOCK AS USED IN THE
MANUFACTURE OF BEDDING.
The Metropolitan Borough of Hackney forwarded a copy report of
Public Health Committee upon an analysis of Flock as used in the
manufacture of bedding. The analysis was made by Leo Taylor, F.I.C.,
the Public Analyst for the Borough of Hackney.
Samples of " Flock" or material used in stuffing pillows and
mattresses were analysed.
At Glasgow, in the year 1905, the Chief Sanitary Inspector of that
town read a paper on " What People Sleep Upon " before the Congress of
the Sanitary Institute, and in that paper he gave the results of his
investigation into the organic matter obtained from flock by washing.
The results of Mr. Taylor's analyses are given in Tables, and for the
sake of comparison he gives the analysis of a sewage effluent recently
decided by the Magistrates to be too bad to turn into a flowing watercourse.
Mr. Taylor reported :—
" It will thus be seen that organic matter exists in the flock, and