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Poplar 1922

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

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Table: TABLE XXII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bow Sub-District. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1922.

TABLE XXII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bow Sub-District. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1922.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Sub-District.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from Sub-District.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small-pox...........................
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)117347441211......*115
Erysipelas18...221472†8
Scarlet Fever123241736...1...‡119
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever...........................
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever2.........11......§1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis...........................
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica...........................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1414.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis82......91737181...
Other forms of Tuberculosis28...783433...
Zymotic Enteritis631............2...
Anthrax...........................
Pneumonia (all forms)1419481982s1811...
Malaria1............1.........
Dysentery...........................
Totals5323114615548864719243

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* See page 03. † See page 60. ‡ See page 69. ¶ See page 61. § See page 59.
** See page 67.