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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 1909
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| No. | Date. | Sex. | Age. | Address. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 11th Jan. | Male | 49 years | Railway Street | Patient recently engaged on s.s. "Ottawa" (oil-tank ship), arrived from South American ports at Manchester 31/12/08. The ship's drinking water is thought to be the source of infection, being drawn (so it is alleged) from the river instead of from the proper reservoirs in South America. (Died 26th January.) |
| 11th Jan. | Female | 14 years | Clifton Street | See Nos. 2, 3, 4 and 5. Died 14th January.) | |
| 8 | 16th Jan. | Male | 22 years | Dewberry Street | Patient, a ship's fireman, was ill on arrival of ship, the s.s. "Pardo," at Plymouth on the 20/12/08. Several cases had been landed at Las Palmas. |
| 9 | 20th Feb. | Female | 24 years | Sophia Street | After confinement. (Notified on 1st February as Puerperal Fever.) |
| 10 | 3rd April | Male | 29 years | Grace Street | Patient complained of insanitary condition of premises in Brunswick Road, where he worked. |
| 11 | 20th June | Female | 3 years | High Street, Bow | No probable cause. Previous cases in house 1906 and 1907. No carrier found.' |
| 12 | 21st Aug. | Male | 20 years | Harley Street | Probably contracted when on cycle runs. Had been to Isle of Wight, also to West-clifle, but could not trace that he had a meal of fish. Patient used condensed milk, and drank soda and milk when on runs. |
| 13 | 12th Aug. | Male | 13 years | Allanmouth Road.. | Muck raking on a dust shoot. (Died 14th August.) |
| 14 | 21st Aug. | Male | 41 years | Oban Street | Arrived home from sea and was ill at time. |
| 15 | 12th Oct. | Male | 22 years | Giraud Street | Very much run down. Report from M.A.B. not a case. |
| 16 | 21st Oct. | Male | 26 years | Sussex Street | III and run down. |
| 17 | 4th Nov. | Male | 26 years | Findhorn Street | Was Quarter-master on the s.s. " Lake Michigan." |
| 18 | 5th Nov. | Male | 11 years | Giraud Street | Run down. |
| 19 | 10th Nov. | Female 25 years | Sick Asylum | Nurse in the Sick Asylum. | |
* In 1906 four members of the family were notified to be suffering from Enteric
Fever—a female aged 9½ years (died), a male aged 14 years, a male aged 7 years and a
female aged 49 years.
In 1907 the male aged 14 years was again notified to be suffering from Enteric
Fever. (During his first illness in 1906 he was away three months.) In the months
of July and September, 1909, samples of the urine and stools of the members of the
family who had recovered from the fever, as well as some members who had not bee
attacked, were examined at the Lister Institute with negative results.