Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Annual report for the year 1916 on the sanitary condition and vital statistics of the Metropolitan Borough of Poplar, comprising the registration sub-districts of Poplar, Bromley and Bow
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(14) A male, aged 15 months, of Brunswick Road, Bromley.
Notified from Poplar Hospital. Admitted to Hospital 27th August.
(15) A male, aged 16 months, of Blackthorn Street, Bromley.
Notified from London Hospital, 31st August.
(16) A female, aged 3J years, of Dunkeld Street, Bromley. Notified
from East London Hospital, Shadwell. Admitted into Hospital 2nd
September-
(17) A male, aged 2 years, of Dunkeld Street, Bromley. Notified
from East London Hospital, Shadwell. Admitted into Hospital 2nd
September.
(18) A female, aged 15 months, of Wellington Street, Bromley.
Notified from Great Ormond Street Hospital, 4th September, having
been admitted 26th August.
(19) A female, aged 6 months, of Wyke Road, Bow. Notified from
East London Hospital, Shadwell, 13th September. Admitted 6th
September. Died 17th September.
One patient died—0 Poplar, 0 Bromley, and 1 Bow.
Another death occurred in the London Hospital, a female, aged 16
months, St. Stephen's Road, Bow. Case not notified.
DIARRHEA AND ENTERITIS.
Diarrhcea and Enteritis; Notification of Zymotic Enteritis
and Summer Diarrhcea.
Under this heading are included deaths registered as due to epidemic
diarrhoea, epidemic enteritis, infective enteritis, zymotic enteritis, summer
diarrhoea, choleraic diarrhoea, gastro-enteritis, gastro-intestinal catarrh,
muco-enteritis. colitis, etc.
Deaths from dysentery are not included, but tabulated separately, and four fatal cases from this disease occurred in the Borough—1 Poplar, 3 Bromley, and 0 Bow. See Tables IX.—XII.
| Poplar. | Bromley. | Bow. | Borough of Poplar. | London. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 115 | 132 | 96 | 343 | 5,433* |
| 1912 | 24 | 35 | 14 | 73 | 1,371* |
| 1913 | 55 | 64 | 52 | 171 | 3,098* |
| 1914 | 55 | 82 | 58 | 195 | 3,031* |
| 1915 | 73 | 49 | 52 | 174 | 2,542* |
| 1916 | 43 | 41 | 23 | 107 | 1,598 |
* Under two years for London only.