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Poplar 1914

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

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Alphabetical Street List of Infectious Diseases 115
Disinfecting Department—Rooms and Articles (Infectious Diseases and Verminous)
Disinfected 124
Electrolytic Disinfecting Fluid—Output of Fluid, Distribution of Fluid, Cost of
Material and Electricity, Bottles, Corks and Labels, Total Quantity Manufactured
since Installation of Plant, Expenditure for the year ended 31st
March, 1914, and for half-year ended 30th September, 1914, Average expenditure
for the three years ended March, 1914. Estimated Expenditure
for the year ending 31st March, 1915, and for the year ending 31st March, 1916,
Spraying and Cleansing of Floors of London County Council Schools with
Electrolytic Fluid, Swimming Baths—the use therein of Electrolytic Disinfecting
Fluid, Comments on Adverse Criticisms 125
Verminous Children attending School—London County Council (General Powers)
Act, 1907, Children Act, 1908, Number of Verminous Children Bathed, Itch
Cases, Re-infesting of School Children and Purchasing of Second-hand Wearing
Apparel 130
Cleansing of Persons Act, 1897 132
Verminous Persons in Common Lodging-Houses—London County Council (General
Powers) Act, 1907, Number of Persons Cleansed from Common Lodging Houses
within and without the Borough, Agreement with the London County Council
as to the Bathing of Inmates of Common Lodging Houses without the Borough 133
Port Sanitary Notices 134
Plague 134
Anthrax 135
Glanders—London (Notification of Glanders) Order, 1907 136
Hydrophobia 136
Puerperal Fever—Number of Cases, Deaths 136
Small-pox 138
Vaccination—Vaccination Order, 1914, Vaccination Acts (Repeal) Bill 139
Erysipelas 142
Scarlet Fever 144
Continued and Typhus Fevers 146
Typhoid Fever—Notifications, Rate per 1,000 Persons living, Drainage of Premises,
Isolation, Shell-fish and Predisposing Causes, Errors in Diagnosis, Bacteriological
Examinations of Doubtful and Convalescent Cases, Deaths 146
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)—Notifications, Sex and School Age,
Deaths, Bacteriological Examinations, Errors in Diagnosis, Condition of
House Drainage, Isolation, Diphtheria Antitoxin (London) Order, 1910,
Diphtheria and London County Council Schools 152
Whooping Cough—Deaths 158
Influenza—Deaths 158
Measles—Deaths, Schools, Closure of Classrooms, Admission of non-pauper cases
into Hospitals of the Metropolitan Asylums Board, Local Government Board
Order, Milkshops, Outworkers, Disinfection 159
"Spotted Fever" (Epidemic Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis) 163
Acute Polio-Myelitis or Acute Polio-Encephalitis 164
Diarrhœa and Enteritis, Circular Letter of the Local Government Board and
Suggested Notification of Zymotic Enteritis 165
Inquests and Deaths from Violence 169
Mortuary—Number of Bodies Received into Council's Cottage Street Mortuary 170
Model Dwellings—Grosvenor, Council and Hanbury 170
Common Lodging Houses 173
Seamen's Lodging Houses 173
Canal Boats 174
Workshops, Workplaces, Laundries and Outworkers—Registers and Inspections,
Employment and Distress; Underground Workrooms Bill (H.L.); Children's
Bill; Children (Employment and School Attendance) Bill; Eight Hours'
Working Day Bill; Daylight Saving Bill; Weekly Rest Day Bill; the Shops
Bill 174
Table A—Number of Inspection of, &c., of Bakehouses, Laundries, Workshops,
Workplaces, Places where Food is Prepared, Milk Premises, Cowsheds,
Slaughterhouses, Offensive Businesses, Ice Cream Premises, Registered Houses
Let in Lodgings and Homeworkers' Premises 178
Table B—Lists of Trades, Workshops, &c. 180
Tables C, D, E and F—Filled in at the request of the Secretary of State. Factories,
Workshops, Laundries, Workplaces, Homework, &c. 182-185