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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: Institutions. Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the sub-districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

Institutions. Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the sub-districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

Total Cases.Notifications.Removals.
Zymotic Enteritis.Utiicken-pox.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Zymotic Enteritis.Chicken-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.
Poplar Union Work house111......1....9*1....1....*6
Siek Asylum2......‡1......†1....†1........
Bow Institution................................
Bromley House in stitution................................
Children's Receiving Home, 5-1, East India Dock Road1..............1............*1
Poplar Hospital1......†1............†1§......

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* Admitted into Sick Asylum. † Members of the Staff.
§ Admitted into London Fever Hospital.
Of the 319 patients notified in Poplar, 223 were removed to hospitals
and institutions; of the 334 in Bromley 251 were isolated, and of the 269
in Bow 220 were removed, so that of a total of 922 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 694 patients had been removed from their homes.*
Errors in Diagnosis.
In giving the above numbers of notifications, no deductions have
been made for the following cases, which it will be seen developed other
diseases either shortly after admission or after being in the hospital some
time, whilst the list also shows that some patients removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's hospitals, after being detained in those institutions
some days, were returned home certified as not suffering from the
complaint or any other notifiable disease.
* See Tables xxv.-xxviii., pages 62-65.