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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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ZYMOTIC DISEASES.*
Notifications; Institutions; Errors in Diagnosis; Bacteriological
Examinations; Infectious Diseases in Milk Shors
and on Homeworkers' Premises; Metropolitan Asylums
Board Accommodation; Civil and Military Sanitary
Services Co-operation.
Notifications.
There were 319 notifications of infectious diseases in Poplar, 334 in
Bromley, and 269 in Bow, making a total of 922 for the Borough of
Poplar; these do not include 43 second notifications.
In the above figures no deductions have been made for cases removed
to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals, which were certified as
not having a notifiable disease.
The notification rate per 1,000 living being
Poplar.
Bromlev.
Bow.
Borough of
Poplar.
1907 11.44 12.51 9.37 11.34
1908 9.07 12.43 11.15 10.91
1909 7.91 6.92 5.69 6.96
1910 5.30 6.42 4.22 5.46
1911 6.20 7.08 7.13 6.79
1912 4.90 5.50 4.84 5.13
1913 9.55 8.00 8.50 8.66
1914 8.21 8.64 9.16 8.62
1915 7.77 8.77 10.27 8.80
1916 5.92 5.37 6.87 5.94
* Exclusive of Zymotic Enteritis.