Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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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, viz.:—
No. Date. Sex. Age. Address. Remarks.
1 6th Jan. Female 15 years Lamprell Street Previous case, 11/12/09.
2 7th Jan. Female 40 years Deptford Ferry Rd. Previous case, 7/11/08.
3 11th Jan. Male 63 years Laura Cottages Previous case, 30/11/08.
4 23rd Jan. Female 24 years Poplar Hospital Nurse (staff).
5 31st Jan. Female 19 years Driffield Road Drain defective.
6 18th Feb. Male 35 years Harley House, Left Monte Video, 22/1/09.
Bow Road Arrived Rio-de-Janeiro,
27/1/09, and went ashore
and partook of some fruit
and summer drinks, and
had some fish. Arrived
Teneriffe 13 days later,
and the following day illness
began.
7 21st Feb. Male 17 years Victoria Cottages Previous case, 17/1/08.
8 10th April Female 35 years Barchester Street Lately confined.
9 7th July Male 2½ years Fairfoot Road Eating ice-cream and
ing large quantities of
water.
10 6th Aug. Male 11 years Gaselee Street Fell in River Thames, 24/7/08.
11 9th Sept. Male 14 years Bus Yard, High Had eaten cheese and after-
Street, Bromley wards vomited. Mother
had no other suggestion
to offer (a second case
followed, see below).
12 11th Sept. Male 41 years Imperial Street Worked at Gas Works. Drank
some water and was seized
with pains in abdomen.
(A second case followed,
see below).
13 18th Sept. Female 33 years Sick Asylum Nurse (staff).
Bromley
14 21st Sept. Male 31 years Ivy House, Alleged smell from obstructed
Blackwall drain.
15 2nd Oct. Male 12 years Bus Yard. High Second case. See No. 11.
Street, Bromley
16 20th Oct. Female 40 years Imperial Street Second case. See No. 12.
17 26th Oct. Female 30 years Monteith Road Previous case, 21/10 08.
18 27th Oct. Male 25 years Burcham Street Low state of health following
influenza.
19 5th Nov. Female 18 years Monteith Road Third case. First case, 21/10/08.
20 7th Nov. Female 13 years Manchester Road Second case. Previous case,
22/10/08.
21 9th Nov. Male 40 years Judkin Street Stevedore complained of smell
of bilge water pumped
from barge on river, on
which he was working.
22 16th Dec. Male 45 years Goodliffe Street Much run down.
23 31st Dec. Male 55 years High Street, Much run down.
Poplar.