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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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Bow (Sub-District).
| 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 | - | — | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 2 | — | 35 |
| Females | - | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | — | 35 |
| Non-pulmonary— | ||||||||||||
| Males | — | 1 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | — | 7 |
| Females | — | 3 | 3 | — | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 |
| Totals | — | 5 | 18 | 4 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 3 | 3 | - | 84 |
The number of new cases who attended at the Dispensary during
the year 1916 was 1,277 ; of these, 321 were tuberculous.
There was a total of 8,844 attendances at the Dispensary.
The Committee of the Borough of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention
of Consumption agreed to give facilities to the Council for the use
of their apparatus for bacteriological examinations in connection with
cases of suspected Cerebro-spinal Meningitis.
Deaths, Tubercular Diseases and Phthisis—
Number and Rates see pages 20 and 21.
Disinfection of Rooms and Articles see page 73.