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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 1906

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

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Table: SCARLET FEVER."Beturn" Cases of Scarlet Fever. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three parishes, and the deaths which occurred for the past fourteen years were as follows:—

SCARLET FEVER."Beturn" Cases of Scarlet Fever. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three parishes, and the deaths which occurred for the past fourteen years were as follows:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1893Cases notified6278543131794
Deaths394813100
1894Cases notified239331225795
Deaths1222842
1895Cases notified3433303291002
Deaths2019847
1896Cases notified274429243946
Deaths819734
1897Cases notified2514763731100
Deaths6121028
1898Cases notified207325106638
Deaths313622
1899Cases notified142179102423
Deaths2439
1900Cases notified24616885499
Deaths3317
1901Cases notified23623687559
Deaths55414
1902Cases notified182341150673
Deaths511521
1903Cases notified17817794449
Deaths85720
1904Cases notified162271116549
Deaths1012224
1905Cases notified285551155991
Deaths517628
1906Cases notified157281133571
Deaths56112

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A soldier, being a contact of a Scarlet Fever case, before returning
to his regiment had a bath and his clothes disinfected.