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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 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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ZYMOTIC DISEASES.*
Notifications ; Institutions ; Errors in Diagnosis ; Infectious
Diseases in Milk Shofs and on Homeworkers' Premises.
Notifications.
There were 265 notifications of infectious diseases in Poplar, 270 in
Bromley, and 134 in Bow, making a total of 669 for the Borough of
Poplar ; these do not include 29 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
| Poplar. | Bromley. | Bow. | Borough of Poplar. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 1917 | 6.38 | 5.46 | 4.33 | 5.50 |
| 1918 | 5.46 | 483 | 3.80 | 4.79 |
| * Exclusive of Zymotic Enteritis. | ||||