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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 XXVIII.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Bow Sub-District.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1916.

TABLE XXVIII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Bow Sub-District.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified 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 65.05 and upwards.
Small-pox...........................
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)1ll3475164......*106
Erysipelas38...111131210+14
Scarlet Fever911295272......86
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever5.........41......‡4
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever............................
Puerperal Fever5.........14......¶5
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis4...31............§3
Poliomyelitis5...41............**2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1010.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis13617252756173...
Other forms of Tuberculosis4611421541......
Zymotic Enteritis10927454411117...
Totals5604315015655954120220

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