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Poplar 1904
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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ZYMOTIC DISEASES
Notifications, Hospital Accommodation, Infectious diseases in Milk Shops
and on Outworkers' premises.
There were 603 notifications of infectious diseases in Poplar,
951 in Bromley, and 525 in Bow, making a total of 2,079 for the
Borough of Poplar; these do not include 92 second notifications.
In the above figures, no deductions have been made for cases
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals, which were
certified as not having a notifiable disease.
The notification rate per 1000 living being:—
| Poplar. | Bromley. | Bow. | Borough of Poplar. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1894 | 10.6 | 12.9 | 16.2 | — |
| 1895 | 13.6 | 11.9 | 15.8 | — |
| 1896 | 11.3 | 13.8 | 13.1 | — |
| 1897 | 11.49 | 14.50 | 16.04 | — |
| 1898 | 9.57 | 9.61 | 6.39 | — |
| 1899 | 8.99 | 7.98 | 6.70 | — |
| 1900 | 125.0 | 8.36 | 7.04 | — |
| 1901 | 9.68 | 11.72 | 5.73 | 9.52 |
| 1902 | 17.19 | 19.77 | 15.65 | 17.84 |
| 1903 | 8.34 | 6.06 | 5.81 | 6.79 |
| 1904 | 10.15 | 14.04 | 12.36 | 12.26 |