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Poplar 1906
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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54
ZYMOTIC DISEASES.*
Notifications, Institutions, Errors in Diagnosis, Bacterio logical
Examinations, Infectious Diseases in Milk Shops and on
Homeworkers' Premises.
There were 326 notifications of infectious diseases in Poplar, 463 in
Bromley, and 323 in Bow, making a total of 1112 for the Borough of
Poplar; these do not include 71 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 | 12.50 | 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 |
| 1905 | 7.34 | 12.04 | 12.09 | ... | 10.40 |
| 1906 | 5.43 | 6.87 | 7.55 | ... | 6.54 |
Institutions.
Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which
had been notified before admission) within the parishes of Poplar and
Bromley were as follows:—
* "Return" cases of scarlet fever, see page 85.