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Poplar 1910

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

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Received.
Nov. 29.
„ 29.
„ 30.
Dec. 6.
9.
School.
Malmesbury Road
Bromley Hall Road
Malmesbury Road
Malmesburv Road
Bromley Hall Road
Unprotected Children
excluded.
From Room D
From Room B.
From Room D.
Under 5 years of age
(a) From Room E.
(b) Under 5 years of
age from remaining
classrooms.
Period of Exclusion.
28th November to 2nd
December inclusive.
28th November to 2nd
December inclusive.
Extended until 9th December
inclusive.
5th December to Christmas
Holidays.
12th December to 16th
December inclusive.
9th December to Christmas
Holidays.
Notice, dated 14th December, has been received as follows, from the
Medical Officer (Education), London County Council, of the exclusion of
unprotected children on account of measles as specified below from
attendance at the school named for the period stated, viz. :—
School.— Tredegar Eoad.
Unprotected children excluded.— From room A.
Period of exclusion.—15th December to holidays.
Admission of Cases of Measles and Whooping Cough into
Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board.
On the 23rd December, 1910, the Clerk to the Metropolitan Asylums
Board addressed a letter to the Clerk of the Guardians stating that " The
Managers, under authority from the Local Government Board, are prepared
on and after the 31st inst. to devote a portion of their vacant fever
accommodation to the reception of pauper cases (children under 16) of
measles. They hope at a later date to be able to use a certain number
of beds for the treatment of children suffering from whooping cough."
In a further communication, under date 6th January, 1911, the Clerk
of the Metropolitan Asylums Board stated : —"I have to inform you that
while my first letter of the 23rd ultimo asked for particulars of cases
requiring removal from Poor Law Institutions, it was not thereby
intended to imply that cases were to be limited to the inmates of these
institutions. As this does not appear to be clearly understood, I think it
well to state that the Board are prepared, as far as their accommodation
permits, to take direct from their homes cases in which a relief order for
the infirmary could properly be given, provided, of course, that the