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Poplar 1905

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the parishes of Poplar and Bromley were as follows : ‡

Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the parishes of Poplar and Bromley were as follows : ‡

Total Gases.Notifications.Removals.
Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever..Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.
Poplar Union Workhouse6..1......5..1....
Sick Asylum16..11*3....2..11**2..
Sick Asylum, Blackwall2..2..........2....
Stepney Union Workhouse3......2..1......2†
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road4..3......1..3....

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* Three cases were members of the Staff,
** One case removed to Fever Hospital, Liverpool Road,
† Admitted into Sick Asylum.
‡Notifications for Model Dwellings, see page 110
Of the 438 patients notified in Poplar, 299 were removed to
hospitals; of the 813 in Bromley, 583 were isolated, and of the
515 in Bow 369 were removed, so that of a total of 1766 notifiable
diseases in the Borough 1251 patients had been removed from
their homes.
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 shows that some patients
removed to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals, after being
detained in those institutions some days were returned home certified
as not suffering from the complaint or any other notifiable disease.