London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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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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from consumption. Impoverished by the diseases, they cannot be
properly fed and cared for themselves, and they are preparing fresh
victims in their families by the double process of privation and contagion.
A great deal could be done to diminish this suffering and waste of life at
very little expense. The agencies are in existence; all that is needed is
to combine and direct their efforts.
I remain, yours faithfully,
(Sd.) W. H. BROADBENT.
The Right Hon. John Burns, M.P.