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Poplar 1923
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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PUERPERAL FEVER.
Number of Cases.
Sixteen cases of puerperal fever were notified. Seven patients died.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVERS.
No cases of continued fever occurred. No case of typhus fever
occurred.
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.*
Two cases occurred. One patient died.
ACUTE POLIO -MYELITIS, OR ACUTE POLIO -ENCEPHALITIS,
AND ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA.
No cases of Acute Polio-myelitis, nor of Polio-encephalitis were
notified.
Seven cases of Encephalitis Lethargica occurred. Two patients
died.
* Posterior basjl meningitis is included in theterm " cerebro spinal fever,"
which does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear
disease, or injury.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Notifications of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Thirty-eight cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum were notified during the
year:—30 notified by doctors only, 3 by midwives only, and 5 by both
The total notifications received numbered 51.
| Year. | Cases | Vision unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated | ||||||
| At home. | In hospital. | ||||||
| 1914 | 75 | 70 | 5 | 73 | _ | _ | 2 |
| 1915 | 64 | 62 | 2 | 62 | 1 | _ | 1 |
| 1916 | 60 | 60 | _ | 60 | _ | _ | _ |
| 1917 | 39** | 37 | 1 | 36 | 1 | _ | 1 |
| 1918 | 40 | 38 | 2 | 39 | 1 | _ | — |
| 1919 | 61 | 51 | 10 | 60 | 1 | — | — |
| 1920 | 61 | 51 | 10 | 59 | _ | — | 2 |
| 1921 | 47 | 41 | 6 | 42 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| 1922 | 36 | 33 | 3 | 34 | 1 | _ | 1 |
| 1923 | 38 | 30 | 8 | 35 | — | — | 3 |
| Totals | 521 | 473 | 47 | 500 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
** 1 born in Institution—not visited, no information available.