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Poplar 1920

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

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Table: Cleansing Station, Glaucus Street, daring the year ended 31st December, 1920.

Cleansing Station, Glaucus Street, daring the year ended 31st December, 1920.

Common Lodging House, etc.Male.Female.Total.
Bow Chambers, 193-7, Bow Road31—31
St. James' Chambers, 217, High Street, PoDlar17—17
48—48
From Common Lodging Houses without Borough of Poplar— Whitechapel_3535
—3535

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PLAGUE.
No case of this disease was notified during the year.
ANTHRAX, GLANDERS, AND HYDROPHOBIA IN MAN.
Anthrax ; London Notification of Glanders Order, 1907 ;
Hydrophobia.
Anthrax.
Two cases were notified : one Poplar and one Bow. The Poplar
case was treated in Poplar Hospital and the Bow case in the London
Hospital. Both cases recovered.
London Notification of Glanders Order, 1907.
In accordance with the London (Notification of Glanders) Order,
1907, one notice was received from the Veterinary Inspector of the
London County Council of the existence of Glanders at premises in the
Borough.
Hydrophobia.
No case of this disease was notified during the year.