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Poplar 1909

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

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Table: TABLE XXIV.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Borough of Poplar.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1909.

TABLE XXIV.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Borough of Poplar.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1909.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Whole Borough.Total Cases notified in each Sub-District.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Sub-District.
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..............................
Diphtheria198595771371797742198*65*63*33*161
Membranous Croup12192......381121719
Erysipelas177117201211512547053177**12**5**10**27
Scarlet Fever72752064554318..308281138727†278†278†l20†668
Enteric Fever54..5181417..311765430‡30‡5‡50
Relapsing Fever..............................
Continued Fever..............................
Puerperal Fever13......49..57113§3....§7
Plague..............................
Cerebro-Spinal meningitis8161......1258‼1‼2‼4‼7
Totals11892332857386166134814622461189390366173929

Table: TABLE XXV.METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.Poplar Sub-District.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1909.

TABLE XXV.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR.

Poplar Sub-District.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1909.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in whole Sub-District.No. of Cases removed to Hospital from Sub-District.
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................
Diphtheria792402962..*65
Membranous Croup3..21......1
Erysipelas543292344††12
Scarlet Fever308283204145..†278
Typhus Fever................
Enteric Fever31..31477..‡30
Relapsing Fever................
Continued Fever................
Puerperal Fever5......23..§3
Plague................
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis11..........‼1
Totals481813025731514390

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* See page 109. † See page 99. ‡ See page 101. § See page 95. ‼ See page 115.
** 12 Sick Asylum, Poplar; 4 Sick Asylum and 1 London Hospital, Bromley;
9 Sick Asylum and 1 Hackney Infirmary, Bow. †† 12 Sick Asylum.