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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 1910
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| No. | Date. 1910. | Age. | Sex. | Address. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 25th Jan. | 47 years | Female | Chrisp Street | Patient was generally ill and had eaten mussels and pork and had done a day's washing of clothes from a ship where a case had occurred. |
| 8 | 13th July | 9 years | Male | Hawgood Street .. | Fed on fish lately, but there had been a previous case in house. (See following list No. 6.) |
| 4 | 7th Sept. | 26 years | Female | Milton Road | On the 17th August patient had eaten mussels purchased in the Roman Road. On the 20th September she went to Yarmouth, taken ill on the 25th September, returned home on the 27th September; residence whilst at Yarmouth unknown. |
| 5 | 7th Sept. | 31 years | Female | Clifton Street | Had been eating mussels purchased from a street vendor about three weeks before lying in. |
| 6 | 10th Sept. | 37 years | Male | Love Lane | Had eaten a quantity of mussels three weeks prior to being laid up. |
| 7 8 | 15th Sept. 2nd Oct. | 31 years 12 years | Male Male | Lyal Road Egleton Road | While staying at St. Leonards had visited Hastings on August 24th or 25th, and had eaten some cockles. Had been eating mussels. |
| 9 | 13th Oct. | 25 years | Female | Armagh Road | Had eaten whelks, Sept. 17th. Had eaten sausages, Sept. 24th. |
Respecting the stated causes and predisposing influences, etc., of some of the other cases, they are given below as received from the patients or their friends, viz. :—
| No. | Date. | Age. | Sex. | Address. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2nd Feb. | 56 years | Male | Sick Asylum of Beale Road. | Out of work, but his occupation when at work was as boatman on Victoria Park Lake. |
| 2 | 5th Mar. | 23 years | Male | Washington Street | Patient had been working on a dirty tank over a w.c.. |
| 3 | 14th Mar. | 9 years | Female | Eastward Street .. | Had been drinking quantities of water. |
| 4 | 14th Mar. | 43 years | Male | Stewarts Cottages | Employed as a dustman by the Shorediteh Borough Council. |
| 5 | 6th June | 36 years | Male | Pennyfields | Working on a bad drain in Stepney, on the 9th inst., was re-notified by the Medical Superintendent of Hospital as being a case of typhus fever. |
| 17th June | 30 years | Female | Sick Asylum, o Hawgood Street | Had been drinking a quantity of water. |
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