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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1896
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar]
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especially, as crude sewage is turned into the sea, near the mouths of
rivers. Typhoid fever, engendered in this manner, is one of the
many outcomes of impoverishing the land, by robbing it of its natural
rights, viz., nitrification of fcecal and waste matter.
Deuteronomy 23, 12. "Thou shalt have a place also without the camp,
whither thou shalt go forth abroad : 13. And thou shalt have a paddle upon
thy weapon ; and it shall be, when thou wilt ease thyself abroad, thou shalt
dig therewith, and shalt turn back and cover that which cometh from thee."
The grandest hygienic law ever enacted; involving a principle which
ought to remain for all time, and be the basis of perfect sanitation.
DIPHTHERIA (INCLUDING MEMBRANOUS CROUP).
160 cases of diphtheria and 10 cases of membranous croup were
notified in Poplar, and 348 cases of diphtheria and 8 cases of
The diphtheria and membranous croup were notified in Bromley. The diphtheria and membranous croup patients, classified according to sex and school-age, were as follows :—
| South Poplar | 26 | 25 | ||
| North Poplar | 54 | 65 | ||
| South Bromley ... | ... 89 | 120 | ||
| North Bromley ... | 62 | 85 | ||
| 231 | 295 | |||
| 3 to 10 years. | Total. | School age cases. | ||
| Males. | Females. | Per 100 cases notified. | ||
| South Poplar | 8 .. | 14 .. | 22 | 43.1 |
| North Poplar | 29 .. | 32 .. | 61 | 51.2 |
| South Bromley ... | 54 | 68 .. | 122 | ... 58.3 |
| North Bromley ... | 41 .. | 46 .. | 87 | 59-1 |
| Totals | 132 | 160 | 292 | 55-5 |
Two cases occurred in the Poplar Union Workhouse : one patient
was removed to an Asylums Boards' Hospital, and the other was
taken into the Sick Asylum. Of the total 526 cases notified, 121 were