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Poplar 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The scheme for the control ot Measles is referred to on page 157.
(Maternity and Child Welfare Section.)
Pneumonia .
674 cases of Acute Primary Pneumonia and 61 cases of Acute Influenzal
Pneumonia were notified during the year, 205 of the patients being treated
in hospitals. 121 notified patients died—108 Acute Primary Pneumonia
and 13 Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Malaria .
No case of Malaria was notified during the year.
Dysentery.
One case of Dysentery was notified. Patient died in the Seamen's
Hospital, Greenwich.
ALTERED DIAGNOSIS CASES.
159 patients who had been notified as suffering from infectious disease
were later certified to be suffering from some condition other than that
which was notified:—
75 Scarlet Fever; 75 Diphtheria; 2 Enteric Fever; 1
Encephalitis Lethargica; 3 Puerperal Fever; 1 Puerperal
Pyrexia; 1 Cerebro-Spinal Fever; 1 Smallpox.
The final diagnosis in the 75 Scarlet Fever cases was:—
| Tonsillitis | 6 |
| Tonsillitis and Otorrhoea | 1 |
| Erythema | 24 |
| Measles | 11 |
| Diphtheria | 1 |
| Dermatitis | 1 |
| Pityriasis, Streptococcal | 1 |
| Lobar Pneumonia | 1 |
| Nephritis | 1 |
| Disease not specified | *28 |
| 75 |
*These were reported "Negative case", "Not notifiable", etc.