Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The institutions and localities in which the deaths happened were:—
| Asylum, Tooting Bec | 1 |
| St. Luke's House, Kensington | 1 |
| Asylum, Dartford Heath | 1 |
| Hospital, London | 2 |
| Hospital, Poplar | |
| Sick Asylum, Devons Road | 6 |
| Union Workhouse, Poplar | |
| Darenth Industrial Colony | 1 |
| Total |
The mortality for the above buildings for the past nineteen years is as follows :—
| 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. |
| 30 | 48 | 32 | 39 | 44 | 31 | 62 | 39 | 44 | 53 | 48 | 43 |
| 1907. | 1908. | 1909 | 1910. | 1911. | 1912. | 1913. | |||||
| 34 | 38 | 23 | 29 | 33 | 31 | 47. | |||||
Mr. Lough, Clerk to the Guardians, has been good enough to furnish me with the following information for the year 1913:—
| Visiting Medical Orders. | Dispensary Medical Orders. | Number on Permanent List. | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanbury Buildings | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| Grosvenor Buildings | 26 | 49 | 18 |
| Council Buildings | 0 | 0 | 0 |
The following figures are the number of poor-law medical orders
issued during the respective years:—
Hanbury Buildings.
| 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 1904. | 1905. | 1906. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 30 | 11 | 18 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 8 | .15 | 27 | .34 | 17 |
| 1907 | 1908. | 1909. | 1910 | 1911. | 1912. | 1913 | |||||
| 16 | 23 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 6 | 8 | |||||
Grosvenor Buildings.
| 1894. | 1895. | 1896. | 1897. | 1898. | 1899. | 1900. | 1901. | 1902. | 1903. | 3. 1904. | 1905. | 1906. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 77 | 103 | 65 | 48 | 46 | 27 | 28 | 19 | 60 | 69 | 63 | 103 | 98 |
| 1907. | 1908. | 1909. | 1910. | 1911. | 1912. | 1913. | ||||||
| 81 | 115 | 104 | 135 | 158 | 152 | 93 | ||||||