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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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SCARLET FEVER.

Table: The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past ten years were as follows:—

The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past ten years were as follows:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1907Cases notified .4785942111,283
Deaths1522643
1908Cases notified3955503341,279
Deaths1020636
1909Cases notified308281138727
Deaths910322
1910Cases notified17322078471
Deaths29112
1911Cases notified109150116375
Deaths36110
1912Cases notified10914659314
Deaths1203
1913Cases notified332276148756
Deaths101112
1914Cases notified233243187663
Deaths16310
1915Cases notified168169142479
Deaths44—8
1916Cases notified11410391308
Deaths0527

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105 cases in Poplar (Sub-District) were removed to the Metropolitan
Asylum's Boards Hospitals, 96 in Bromley and 86 in Bow. Two cases
from Bromley were treated in the London Fever Hospital. So that
289 patients out of 30S notified cases in the Borough were isolated.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVER.
No cases of continued and typhus fever were notified.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Notifications; Rate per 1,000 Living; Drainage of Premises;
Isolation; Shellfish and Predisposing Causes; Errors in
Diagnosis; Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful and
Convalescent Cases ; Deaths.
A1537 G 2