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Poplar 1900

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Bromley, South District comprising the parishes of All Saints Poplar and Bromley Saint Leonard]

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Table: TABLE XIX.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar and Bromley Parishes.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year1900.

TABLE XIX.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar and Bromley Parishes.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year1900.

Notifiable Disease.Cases notified in Whole District.Total cases notified in each Locality.No. of cases removed to Hospital from each Locality
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 1515 to 2525 to 6565 and up'wdsPoplarBromley.PoplarBromley.
Small Pox2......1...1......2...2
Cholera..............................
Diphtheria534618427147251303231185143
Membranous Croup2031151......13721
Erysipelas152411131788198270......
Scarlet Fever41431162473513246168161110
Typhus Fever1............1......1...1++
Enteric Fever190...1065496519010056+67+
Relapsing Fever.................................
Continued Fever1............1......1...1++
Puerperal Fever6.........42...422*1**
Plague.................................
Totals13201633260215319621738582406326

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* One case treated in Sick Asylum.
* „ removed as suffering from Typhoid Fever.
† See pages 32 & 33.
†† Same case.
** Treated in Sick Asylum.
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Notifications and Hospital Accommodation, Outworkers.
When the London Government Act came into force the Clerk to
the Metropolitan Asylums Board wrote, " I am desirous for statistical
purposes of recording until the end of the year the weekly extracts
from copy notification certificate in as far as possible the same sanitary
districts as have existed until the present change.
" I should therefore be glad if you would make such arrangements
as would allow the copy notifications to be entered on the return sent