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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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Table: TABLE XXVI.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Poplar Sub-District.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1916.

TABLE XXVI.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Poplar Sub-District.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1916.

Cases Notified in whole Sub-District.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from Sub-District.
Notifiable Disease.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
Small-pox...........................
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)10444543642...*92
Erysipelas5427679158†12
Scarlet Fever1142336784......105
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever7...12...31...‡6
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever3............3......¶1
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis62...31.........§3
Poliomyelitis614...1.........**4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2525.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis227219433488401...
Other forms of Tuberculosis146164060161031...
Zymotic Enteritis419105203271735284...
Totals1111159352251901568914223

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