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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 XXVII.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Bromley Sub-District.Cases of Infectious Disease notifiel during the Year 1916.

TABLE XXVII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Bromley Sub-District.

Cases of Infectious Disease notifiel during the Year 1916.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in whole Sub-District.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from Sub-District.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.15 and upwards.
Small-pox...........................
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)12455260322*111
Erysipelas6621011517138†l4
Scarlet Fever1031296553......98
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever7......241......‡7
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever9.........18......¶7
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis93221...1...§8
Poliomyelitis8...8...............**6
Ophthalmia Neonatorum88.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis235323424397252...
Other forms of Tuberculosis109192648961......
Zymotic Enteritis6041192785235644115...
Totals12821604282821061988325251

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