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Poplar 1917

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

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(5) A patient, aged 30 years, of Bow Road, Bow. Notified 21st
April from Sick Asylum, where patient had been removed on 16th April.
(6) A patient, aged 24 years, of Whitethorn Street, Bromley. Notified
21st April from Sick Asylum, where patient had been removed on
19th April.
(7) A patient, aged 24 years, of Sherwood Street, Bromley. Notified
15th June, from Sick Asylum. Admitted 14th June.
(8) A patient, aged 33 years, of Havannah Street, Poplar. Notified
20th June, and removed to Metropolitan Aslyums Board Hospital on
27th June.
(9) A patient, aged 39 years, of Armagh Road, Bow. Notified and
removed to Eastern Hospital 23rd July.
(10) A patient, aged 35 years, of Rounton Road, Bromley. Notified
by a private practitioner on 23rd September. Patient admitted into
Sick Asylum on same date.
(11) A patient, aged 22 years, of Quebec Buildings, Poplar. Notified
2nd November and treated at home.
(12) A patient, aged 19 years, of Ellesmere Street, Poplar. Notified
12th November, and removed to South Eastern Hospital on the same
date. This case has since been reported by the South Eastern Hospital
to be not suffering from Puerperal Fever.
(13) A patient, aged 43 years, of Burcham Street, Bromley. Notified
30th November, having been removed to Sick Asylum on 28th November.
(14) A patient, aged 36 years, of Vernon Road, Bow. Notified
30th November, having been removed to Sick Asylum on 29th November.
(15) A patient, aged 22 years, of Barque Street, Poplar. Notified
5th December, having been removed to Sick Asylum on 2nd December.
In cases of puerperal fever, the doctor attending is immediately
communicated with by letter asking him to warn all persons in attendance
upon the patient that they must not go near nor attend upon another
lying-in case for some weeks to come and then only after their clothes,
etc., have been properly disinfected, and he is informed that disinfection