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Poplar 1909

[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.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.
Poplar Union Workhouse10..12223..122†1‡3
Sick Asylum2..1..§1......1........
Sick Asylum, Blackwall..........................
City of London Union..........................
Stepney Union Work-..........................
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road2..2..........2........
Poplar Hospital2||1¶1........||11......

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*; †; ‡ Admitted into Sick Asylum.
§ 1 Member of the Staff.
||; ¶ Both Members of the Staff.
|| Member of the Staff removed to London Fever Hospital.
Of the 481 patients notified in Poplar, 390 were removed to hospitals
and institutions; of the 462 in Bromley 366 were isolated, and of the 246
in Bow 173 were removed, so that of a total of 1,189 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 929 patients had been removed from their homes.*
Workmen's Compensation Act and Dangerous Infectious
Diseases—proposed Inclusion.
The attention of the Public Health and Housing Committee was called
to cases of nurses and attendants at Isolation Hospitals, and others
engaged in connection with dangerous infectious diseases, who had died
in the course, and as a result of, the nature of their duties. These cases
* See Tables xxiv.-xxvii.