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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 1908

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

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Institutions.

Table: Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the parishes of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the parishes of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

Total Cases.Notifications.Removals.
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.
Poplar Union Workhouse6..2..2..2..2••2*
Sick Asylum13..9†••2‡••2..9†••••
Sick Asylum, Blackwall......................
City of London Union Infirmary......................
Stepney Union Workhouse......................
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road12..911..1••911§
Poplar Hospital5..4||..¶1......4••..

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* Admitted into Sick Asylum.
†3 Members of the Staff.
‡ Both Members of the Staff.
§ Admitted into Sick Asylum.
|| Members of the Staff removed to London Fever Hospital.
¶ Member of Staff.
Of the 549 patients notified in Poplar, 431 were removed to hospitals;
of the 832 in Bromley 641 were isolated, and of the 480 in Bow 376 were
removed, so that of a total of 1,861 notifiable diseases in the Borough
1448 patients had been removed from their homes.
Proposed Provision for the Reception into Asylums Board
Hospitals of Patients suffering from Erysipelas and
Puerperal Fever.
The Battersea Borough Council communicated with the Local
Government Board and the Metropolitan Asylums Board, urging that