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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: Deaths.The following figures are the deaths from Measles for the past five years:—

Deaths.

The following figures are the deaths from Measles for the past five years:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
191415282063
191561449114
19162119848
191729471591
1918357937151

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Forty-one deaths (25 of which belonged to the Borough of Poplar)'
occurred in the Sick Asylum.
For death rates see Table XVIII., page 45.
Respecting outworkers see page 52.
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.*
Number of Cases.
Nine cases occurred within the Borough—3 Poplar, 4 Bromley, and 2
Bow, as follows:—
Removals.
Poplar (Sub-District).
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals 3
\
Bromley.
London Hospital 2
Children's Hospital, Shadwell 2
4
Bow.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals 2
*Posterior basal meningitis is included in the term "cerebro-spinal fever," which
does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear disease, and injury.