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Poplar 1907

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

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

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

Total Cases.Notifications.Removals.
Smallpox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.
Poplar Union Workhouse4..11....2..11*..
Sick Asylum5..2†..2‡..1..2....
Sick Asylum, Blackwall......................
City of London Union Infirmary......................
Stepney Union Workhouse......................
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road3..2......1..2....
Poplar Hospital......................
* Admitted into Sick Asylum. † Members of the Staff. ‡ One a Member of the Staff.

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Of the 689 patients notified in Poplar, 506 were removed to hospitals;
of the 840 in Bromley 641 were isolated, and of the 402 in Bow 296 were
removed, so that of a total of 1,931 notifiable diseases in the Borough
1443 patients had been removed from their homes.
Errors in Diagnosis*
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.
* See page 95. Proposed supply of anti-toxin.