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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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TABLE XXV.

METROPOLITAN BOROUC4H OF POPLAR.

Borough of Poplar.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1916.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Whole Borough.Total Cases notified in each Sub-District.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Sub-District.
At all Ages.At Ages-Years.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and upwards.Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Total.Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Total Cases Removed.
Small-pox................................................
Cholera (C), Plague(P)................................................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)3331214415415104...1041241ll339*92*111106 **309
Erysipelas1584181813334026546638158†12†l4†l4†40
Scarlet Fever308491184209......11410391308105||98||86||289
Typhus Fever................................................
Enteric Fever19...14851...77519‡6‡7‡4‡17
Relapsing Fever................................................
Continued Fever................................................
Puerperal Fever17.........215......39517¶1¶7¶5¶1 3
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis195562...1...69419§3§8§3§14
Poliomyelitis1911611.........68519**4**6**2**12
Ophthalmia Neonatorum4343..................2581043............
Pulmonary Tuberculosis598649110104241826227233136598............
Other forms of Tuberculosis301368012930205114610946301............
Zymotic Enteritis113225152683561108026419634109 1132............
Totals29533629306892514492135911111282560_2953223251220694

* See page 92. † See page 86. || See page 87. ‡ See page 87. ¶See page 83.
§ Se, page 109. ** See page 111.