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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 1916
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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Borough of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption.
Number of Notifications (actual cases) received from the Borough of
Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption during the period
from 1st January, 1916, to 30th December, 1916:—
Poplar (Whole Borough).
| Age Periods. | Notifications on Form A. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Notifications. | ||||||||||||
| 0 to 1 | 1 to 5 | 5 to 10 | 10 to 15 | 15 to 20 | 20 to 25 | 25 to 35 | 35 to 45 | 45 to 55 | 55 to 65 | 65 and upwards | Total Notifications | |
| Pulmonary— | ||||||||||||
| Males | — | 2 | 19 | 11 | 11 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 8 | 4 | — | 118 |
| Females | — | 8 | 17 | 16 | 11 | 19 | 39 | 25 | 8 | 1 | — | 144 |
| Non-pulmonary— | ||||||||||||
| Males | — | 6 | 13 | 9 | 1 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | 30 |
| Females | 1 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 2 | — | 1 | — | — | 29 | |
| Totals | 1 | 26 | 58 | 40 | 25 | 40 | 62 | 48 | 16 | 5 | — | 321 |