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

I nstitutions.

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.Chicken-pox.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Zymotic Enteritis.Chicken-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.
Poplar Union Workhouse6..1....1....4..*1..*1....*4
Sick Asylum5..1||3§1........†1||3§1......
Bow Institution................................
Bromley House Institution11............................
Langley House, 54, East India Dock Road3..2....1........*2..** 1......
Poplar Hospital1........1............‡1......

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* Admitted into Sick Asylum. † Admitted to Cleveland Street Infirmary. § Staff.
Admitted to M.A.B. Hospit&l. || Two cases members of Staff admitted to M.A.B. Hospitals,
1 other case admitted to Cleveland Street Infirmary. ‡ Admitted to London Fever
Hospital. ** Admitted to M.A.B. Hospital.
Of the 265 patients notified in Poplar, 219 were removed to hospitals
and institutions ; of the 270 in Bromley 204 were isolated, and of the 134
in Bow 99 were removed, so that of a total of 669 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 520 patients had been removed from their homes.*
Errors in Diagnosis.
The corrected number of notifications would be—
Poplar 265 — 9 = 256 or 5.28 per 1000 living.
Bromley 270 — 8 = 262 or 4.68 „
Bow 134 — 1 = 133 or 3.77
Borough of Poplar 669 — 18 = 651 or 4.66 „
* See Tables XIX.—XXII., pages 46-49.