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Poplar 1908

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

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TABLE XXIV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Borough of Poplar. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1908.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Whole Borough.Total Cases notified in each Locality.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Locality.
At all Ages.At Ages —Years.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Total.Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Total.
Small-pox..............................
Cholera..............................
Diphtheria308121321391411..65171723085213465251
Membranous Croup6..42......1326........
Erysipelas138108212111018558647188........
Scarlet Fever1279183927608227..39555033412793564872921135
Typhus Fever..............................
Enteric Fever61..1171033..25191701*19*18*16*58
Relapsing Fever..............................
Continued Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever14......68..61714†2††3†5
Plague..............................
Spotted Fever5311......2215‡2‡2..‡4
Totals1861435389401331891854983248018614316413761448

TABLE XXV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar Sub-District. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1908.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Sub-District.No. of Cases removed to Hospital.
At all Ages.At Ages—Years.
Under 1.1 to 5.5 to 15.15 to 25.25 to 65.65 and upwards.
Small-pox................
Cholera................
Diphtheria653302732..52
Membranous Croup1....1........
Erysipelas554373362..
Scarlet Fever39531292341910..356
Typhus Fever................
Enteric Fever25....10114..191
Relapsing Fever................
Continued Fever................
Puerperal Fever6......33..2†
Plague................
Spotted Fever211........2‡
Totals5491116327929652431

* See Annual Report, page 97 † See Annual Report, page 91.
‡ See Annual Report, page 106.