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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 1919

Annual report for the year 1919 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: SCARLET FEVER. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past five years were as follows:—

SCARLET FEVER. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past five years were as follows:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1915Cases notified168169142479
Deaths44—8
1916Cases notified11410391308
Deaths0527
1917Cases notified817450205
Deaths1124
1918Cases notified978252231
Deaths0202
1919Cases notified11216296370
Deaths—4—4

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100 cases in Poplar (Sub-District) were removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals, 149 in Bromley and 88 in Bow. So that 337
patients out of 370 notified cases in the Borough were isolated.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVER.
No cases of continued and typhus fever were notified.
TYPHOID FEVER.
Notifications; Rate per 1,000 Living; Errors in Diagnosis;
Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful and Convalescent
Cases; Deaths.

Table: Notifications. The Typhoid Fever cases notified were:—

Notifications. The Typhoid Fever cases notified were:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1915107118
191677519
19171916439
191883112*
1919116623

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* The lowest number of cases recorded.