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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 XXI.

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

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bromley 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 6.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 45.45 to 65.65 and up wards.
Small-pox1...............1...1
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)1374705571......*115
Erysipelas382110...9133†6
Scarlet Fever82...225172......‡71
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever3.........12......¶3
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever5............5......§4
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis4211............**4
Poliomyelitis...........................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum77.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis2384164134105344...
Other forms of Tuberculosis861234958.........
Zymotic Enteritis414641433539685213...
Chicken Pox || ||6332733............‡‡4
Totals1078873032759320010020208

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* See page 65. † See page 62. ‡ See page 62. 1, ¶ See page 63. § See page 61.
** See page 78.
|| || Notifiable from March 27th to June 30th. ‡‡ Cleveland Street Infirmary.