Annual report, year 1899, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District.

  • Poplar (London, England). Board of Works.
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[1900]
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Credit: Annual report, year 1899, on the sanitary condition with vital statistics of the parishes of Poplar and Bromley within the Poplar District. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    24 tendents of the South Eastern and Eastern Fever Hospitals. The following is the report upon the subject presented to the Sanitary Committee, 27th April:— So far as the South Eastern Fever Hospital is concerned, a reply was received from the Clerk to the Asylums Board stating that the matter shall receive attention, and later on the Clerk to the Asylums Board wrote—'Your letter of the 30th ultimo, addressed to the Medical Superintendent of the Hospital upon the matter, was read to the Committee of Management at their meeting on the 20th inst. At the same time the Committee had under consideration the obser vations of the Medical Superintendent upon the subject-matter of your letter, and a copy of these they directed me to forward to you in reply to it.' [Copy.] South Eastern Hospital. Observations of Medical Superintendent re case of--. I beg to report as follows concerning the case referred to in Dr. Alexander's letter: --was admitted here on the 23rd December, 1898, with diphtheria. While in the hospital he developed chicken-pox and scarlet fever, on February 4th, 1899, and February 10th respec tively. The source of infection in the first case could not be traced ; in the second case it was from a boy in an adjoining bed. I regret to say that this case is not an isolated instance, and that many patients develop a second disease after admission to hospital. I have regularly reported to you the number of such cases in each annual report I have submitted to you. 20th April, 1899. (Signed) F. M. TURNER. The Medical Superintendent of the Eastern Fever Hospital in his reply states: 'Diphtheria has long been known as a complication of the convalescent stage ol Scarlet Fever. I think myself, and I think this is the commonly accepted view, that the infection of