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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 1907

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

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Table: Notices served for windows to be put in working order 35

Notices served for windows to be put in working order 35

Final notices served re cleansing19
Final notices served re abatement of overcrowding2
Intimations served, for rooms to be rid of vermin, under London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1904, Section 2061
House-to-house inspections397
Houses found to be in fair condition83
House-to-house visits for registration purposes329
Re-inspections2,339
Night inspections292
Rooms stripped and cleansed756
Passages „ „108
Staircases „ ,,123
Yard walls cleansed247
Wash-houses „261
Waters closets „267
Areas ,,37
Rooms rid of vermin95
Staircase window sashes repaired and put in working order18
Room „ „ „ „17

Table: The registered houses are situated throughout the Borough as follows:—

The registered houses are situated throughout the Borough as follows:—

Bow30
Bromley370
Blackwall16
Cubitt Town70
Millwall101
Old Ford185
Poplar248
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And in the following Roads and Streets:—
Arcadia Street, Poplar Beachy Road, Old Ford
Allanmouth Road, Victoria Park Broomfield Street, Bromley
Alpha Road, Millwall Blackthorn Street, Bromley
Bartlett Street, Bromley Brabazon Street, Bromley
Barchester Street, Poplar Cotton Street, Poplar
Brunswick Street, Blackwall Clifton Street, Poplar
Box Street, Bromley Charles Terrace, Millwall