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Poplar 1922

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

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Of the 406 patients notified in Poplar, 381 were removed to hospitals
and institutions ; of the 530 in Bromley 499 were isolated, and of the 260
in Bow 243 were removed, so that of a total of 1,196 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 1,123 patients (exclusive of ophthalmia neonatorum) had
been removed from their homes.*

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.
Diphtheria.Erysipelas.Scarlet Fever.SmallpoxPuerperal Fever.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Zymotic Enteritis.Pneumonia (all forms'.Diphtheria.Erysipelas.Scarlet Fever.SmallpoxPuerperal Fever.Zymotic Enteritis.Pneumonia (all forms).
Poplar Institution65..1..37....27....1*..37*..13*..
St. Andrew's Hospital115§..4§1....1..5**4**1**......
Bow Institution..1..............1§..............
Bromley House Institution1..1..............1*..........
Langley House, 54, East India Dock Road11..............** 1............
Poplar Hospital..22§..............2 **............

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* Admitted into St. Andrew's Hospital. ** Renoved to M.A.B. Hospitals,
§ Staff.
* See Tables XIX.—XXII., pages 44-47.