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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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Six patients died from Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis—1 Poplar, 4 Bromley,
and 1 Bow, and in two other fatal cases (Poplar Sub-District) which had
been notified as Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis the causes of death were given as
"Tuberculous Meningitis "and "Miliary Tuberculosis" respectively.
ACUTE POLIO-MYELITIS, OR ACUTE POLIOENCEPHALITIS.
Number of Cases.
Four cases were notified—2 Poplar, 0 Bromley, and 2 Bow.
Removals.
Two Poplar cases were treated in Children's Hospital, Shadwell, and a
Bcw case in London Hospital.
Deaths.
Two Poplar patients died.
DIARRHCEA AND ENTERITIS.
Diarrhcea and EnteriIts -Deaths; Notification of Zymotic
Enteritis and Summer Diarrhcea.
Under this heading are included deaths registered as due to epidemic
diarrhcea, epidemic enteritis, infective enteritis, zymotic enteritis, summer
diarrhoea, choleraic diarrhoea, gastro-enteritis, gastro-intestinal catarrh,
muco-enteritis, colitis, etc. See Tables VIII.—XI., XIII.—XVI.
Deaths from dysentery are not included, but tabulated separately,
and 12 fatal cases from this disease occurred in the Borough—5 Poplar,
4 Bromley and 3 Bow. See Tables VIII.—XI.
Borough
Poplar. Bromley. Bow. of Poplar. London.
1914 55 82 58 195 3,031*
1915 73 49 52 174 2,542*
1916 43 41 23 107 1,598*
1917 39 32 28 99 1,506*
1918 21 18 19 58 1,112*
*Under two years for London only.