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Poplar 1918

Annual report for the year 1918 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 XX.

Table: METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar Sub-District.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year1918.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar Sub-District.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year1918.

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 65.65 and upwards
Small-pox...........................
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)1244635313......*111
Erysipelas29...261596†10
Scarlet Fever9733458...2......‡87
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever8......3221...¶5
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever2.........11......§1
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis3...1...2.........**3
Poliomyelitis211...............††2
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2121.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis221213303993422...
Other forms of Tuberculosis873165368...1...
Zymotic Enteritis2175092221519172...
Chicken Pox || ||57337161.........‡‡3
Totals86887259241681336911222

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* See page 65. † See page 62, ‡ See page 62. ¶ See page 63.
§ See page 61. ** See page 78. †† See page 79.
|| || Notifiable from March 27th to June 30th. ‡‡Sick Asylum.