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Poplar 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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VERMINOUS PERSONS IN COMMON LODGING
HOUSES, LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL (GENERAL
POWERS) ACT, 1907.
Number of Persons Cleansed Within and Without Borough from
Common Lodging Houses.
Number of Persons Cleansed Within and Without Borough
from Common Lodging Houses.
The following number of persons from Common Lodging Houses
within and without the Borough of Poplar were cleansed at the Council's
Cleansing Station, Glaucus Street, during the year ended 31st December,
1917.
Common Lodging House, etc.
Male.
Female
Total.
Bow Chambers, 193-7, Bow Road 79 — 79
St. James' Chambers, 217, High Street,
Poplar 28 — 28
107 — 107
From Common Lodging Houses without Borough of Poplar—
| Whitechapel | — | 4 | 4 |
| Duval Street, Stepney | — | 1 | 1 |
| — | 5 | 5 |
PLAGUE.
No case of this disease was notified during the year.