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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 1929

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

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Table: INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Number of cases notified.Number of cases visited.Arrangements made for nursing, and terms.Number of cases nursed.Number of cases removed to Hospital.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum5656(1) East London Nursing Society (2) Nursing Sisters, St. John Divine (3) St. Mildred's District Nurses125
Puerperal Fever1212Nil.12
Puerperal Pyrexia1010Nil.9
Measles and German Measles (children under 5)Not Notifiable Reported 982Not Notifiable Reported98212152
Whooping Cough (do.)531531880
Epidemic Diarrhoea (do.)112112128
Poliomyelitis (do.)Nil.Nil.Nil.Nil.