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Poplar 1906

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: PHTHISIS. Deaths (all ages.)

PHTHISIS. Deaths (all ages.)

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1893969773266
18949610176273
189511410070284
189611211390315
189712314096359
1898135111106352
1899141136131408
190011512780322
19011259780302
190211610694316
190311811384315
190412510983317
190510611966291
190612610357286

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THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.
The following letter with a memorial was received in February from
the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption and other
Forms of Tuberculosis :—
20, Hanover Square,
London, W.,
February, 1906.
Sir,
I beg respectfully to request that you will bring the accompanying
Memorial of the National Association for the Prevention of Consumption
before your Board.
Consumption is largely due to the conditions which attend poverty,
and affects chiefly the poor who in sickness become a charge on charity
or on the public funds. Among the poor from this point of view must be
included large numbers of the working classes reduced to poverty by this
disease. Its prevention is thus eminently a social and public question,
and it is in a great measure practicable. Consumption is a contagious
disease; the predisposing influences and the mode in which it is spread