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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. | Age. | Sex. | Address. | Remarks. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 22nd July | 28 years | Female | East India Dock Road. | Contracted abroad in Montreal, presumably bad water. Came to England per s.s. " Victorian," Allan Line, 1/7/10. |
| 8 | 26th Aug. | 16 years | Female | Stebondale Street.. | Drains defective. |
| 9 | 8th Sept. | 5 years | Male | Giraud Street | Child had been puttiug his head down a gully, the grid of which had been removed by bigger boys outside the house. |
| 10 | 10th Sept. | 34 years | Male | St. Leonard's Avenue. | Patient worked as fish curer in Chrisp Street. He first had pneumonia, the fever supervening in the London Hospital. He died 5/9. |
| 11 | 1st Oct. | 11 years | Male | Wendon Street .. | A week prior to illness patieut had bathed iu Victoria Park Lake. Drains had recently been opened next door but one. |
| 12 | 4th Oct. | 7 years | Male | Albert Street | Had been hopping at Paddock Wood, Kent, where patient had drunk water drawn from a spring and a pump. |
| 7th Oct. | 36 years | Male | Rippoth Road | Patient is a barge builder and been employed at Whit-stable for about four or five weeks, until Sept. 13th, when he returned very unwell, had been previously notified as suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis. | |
| 14 | 17th Oct. | 12 years | Female | Plimsoll Street | Had eaten ice cream on a very hot day with other children. |
| 15 | 18th Oct. | 45 years | Female | Dace Road | Attributed to eating pork. Rooms in dirty condition and buggy. |
| 16 | 5th Nov. | 13 years | Male | Willis Street | W.C. obstructed. |
| 17 | 11th Nov. | 15 years | Female | Lawrence Road .. | Said to be due to recently executed drain work on premises of which this department had not been notified. |
| 18 | 11th Nov. | 38 years | Male | Sick Asylum, of Kerbey Street .. | Been in the Sick Asylum since August 19th. |
| 19 | 24th Nov. | 17 years | Male | Charles Street | Fell in the river about three weeks previously. |
| 20 | 21st Dec. | 10 years | Female | Ida Street | Contact with two other cases. |
| 21 | 22nd Dec. | 5 years | Female | Kerbey Street | Through drinking cold water. |
| 22 | 23rd Dec. | 5 years | Male | Stewart's Terrace.. | Alleged to have been caused by a blow on head and stoppage of the bowels. |
| 23 | 23rd Dec. | 19 years | Male | Poplar Union | One week in workhouse (late of a ship). |
62 cases of Typhoid Fever were notified during the year, but in many
instances no causes or predisposing influences were stated.