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Poplar 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar]
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Ten outworkers in Bromley were connected with infectious cases
notified. The usual notices were served.
No notices from Port Sanitary Authorities were received.
DISINFECTING DEPARTMENT.
The following figures give the number of premises disinfected, and the number of times the Board's apparatus was used for the two parishes, some thousands of articles being disinfected.
| Private premises. | Board's apparatus. | |
|---|---|---|
| Poplar | 474 | 364 |
| Bromley | 690 | 590 |
| 1164 | 954 |
SMALL POX.
There were no notifications of small pox received from Bromley,
but eight cases were notified from Poplar. Seven of these patients
were removed to the hospital, two were sent back as not having the
disease, and one case, treated at home, turned out not to be small
pox at all, so that really only five cases of small pox occurred, and
these existed in one family at 109 East Ferry Road. The complaint
was contracted by the mother visiting her daughter in Canning Town,
who was suffering from small pox. The father caught the disease
from the mother; the brother also visited his sister and contracted
small pox, and his wife was also attacked, in addition to their little
girl aged two years. The usual disinfection steps were taken.
Mr. Hitchins the Vaccination Officer has kindly furnished me
with the following statistics :—
January to June, 1896.
| Poplar | 960 | 84 | 578 | 4 |
| Bromley | 1344 | 142 | 674 |