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zymotic diseases.
Notifications and Hospital Accommodation, Outworkers, and Port
Sanitary Authorities' Notifications.
There were 528 notifications of infectious diseases in Poplar and
556 in Bromley; these do not include 44 second notifications.
The notification rate per 1000 living being:—
1894. 1895. 1896. 1897. 1898. 1899.
(A) (B) (A) (B) (A) (B)
Poplar 10.6 13.6 11.3 11.49 11.37 9.57 9.36 8.99 8.76
Bromley 12.9 11.9 13.8 14.50 14.19 9.61 9.25 7.98 7.57
From these notification rates it certainly appears that the infectious
diseases in the two parishes are diminishing, but one must not boast
as from unforeseen circumstances an epidemic may happen at any
moment, and then up will go the notification rate.
Of the 528 patients notified in Poplar, 220 were removed to
hospitals, and of the 556 in Bromley, 253 were isolated.
In giving the above numbers of notifications, no deductions have
been made for the following cases, which it will be seen developed
other diseases, either shortly after admission or after being in the
hospital some time, whilst the list 'also shews that some patients
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Boards' hospitals, after being
detained in those institutions some days were returned home certified
as not suffering from the complaint or any other notifiable disease.