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Poplar 1903
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The corrected number of notifications would be—
Poplar 493 — 17 = 476 or 8.05 per 1000 living,
Bromley 412 — 18 = 394 or 5.80 „ „ „
Bow 246 — 10 = 236 or 5.57 „ „ „
Borough of Poplar 1151 — 45 = 1106 or 6.53 „ „ „
A return from the Metropolitan Asylums Board shews the number of cases wrongly notified in Poplar and London for the years 1899, 1900 and 1901, and removed to Infectious Diseases Hospitals have been as follows:—
| Percentage of mistakes in total cases. | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Poplar. | London. | ||
| 1899 | 49 cases | 8.4 | 6.3 |
| 1900 | 60 „ | 7.3 | 7.9 |
| 1901 | 131 „ | 13.1 | 9.2 |
| 1902 | 93 „ | 3.08 | |
| 1903 | 45 „ | 3.90 | |
In every case of wrongful notification the Public Health Committee
requires an explanation from the Practitioner concerned,
and where this is not satisfactory the facts are reported to the
Council. The Committee fully concurred with the Metropolitan
Asylums Board that "the introduction into the Board's Hospitals
of cases of other diseases than those which such hospitals are
designed to treat" should be prevented as far as practicable.
Arrangements were made that the positive results of bacteriological
examinations shall be communicated to the officers of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board at the time when the removals of
patients are telephoned. Such knowledge, no doubt, will greatly
assist the Medical Superintendents of the various hospitals.
The Ambulance Committee of the Metropolitan Asylums Board
had under consideration a proposal that the operations of the