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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 1919

Annual report for the year 1919 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow

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Table: Institutions. Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the sub-districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

Institutions. Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the sub-districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

Total Cases.Notifications.Removals.
Zymotic Enteritis.Chicken-pox.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Zymotic Enteritis.Chicken-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.
Poplar Union Workhouse2619..........16*17........*1*6
Sick Asylum1..........§1............§1....
Bow Institution................................
Bromley House Institution1..............1............*1
Langley House, 54, East India Dock Road4......3......l....** 3........
Poplar Hospital................................

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*Admitted into Sick Asylum. § Staff, treated in Sick Asylum
** Admitted to M.A.B. Hospital.
Of the 271 patients notified in Poplar, 220 were removed to hospitals
and institutions; of the 366 in Bromley 302 were isolated, and of the 248
in Bow 207 were removed, so that of a total of 885 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 729 patients (exclusive of ophthalmia neonatorum) had
been removed from their homes.*

Table: Errors in Diagnosis.

Errors in Diagnosis.

Corrected number of notifications and rates—
Poplar271—5=266 or 4.98per 1000 living.
Bromley366—4=362 or 5.88„
Bow248—3=245 or 6.32„
Borough of Poplar885—12=873 or 5.68„

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* See Tables XIX.—XXII., pages 46-49.