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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 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Total Cases. | Notifications. | Removals. | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Small-pox. | Chicken-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Typhoid Fever. | Erysipelas. | Small-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Typhoid Fever. | ||
| Poplar Union Workhouse | 18 | .. | 12 | .. | .. | 10 | 6 | .. | 2 | 10 | .. |
| Sick Asylum | 13 | .. | 4 | .. | 6 | 1 | .. | .. | 4 | 5 | .. |
| Sick Asylum, Blackwall | 2 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | 1 | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. |
| Stepney Union Workhouse | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 1 | .. | .. | .. | .. |
| Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road | 9 | .. | .. | 1 | 8 | .. | .. | .. | 1 | 8.. | |
* Notifications for Model Dwellings, see page 84.
Of the 493 patients notified in Poplar, 315 were removed to
hospitals; of the 412 in Bromley, 253 were isolated, and of the
246 in Bow 157 were removed, so that of a total of 1151 notifiable
diseases in the Borough 725 patients had been removed from their
homes.
In giving the above numbers of notifications, no deductions have
been made for the following eases, which it will be seen developed
other diseases, either shortly after admission or after being in the
hospital some time, whilst the list also shows that some patients
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals, after being
detained in those institutions some days were returned homo certified
as not suffering from the complaint or any other notifiable disease.