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Poplar 1912

[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 sub-districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

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

Total CasesNotifications.Removals.
Small-pox.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.| Erysipelas.
Poplar Union Workhouse6...211......2...1*1......*2
Sick Asylum5......2...†1...†2...2............
Sick Asylum, Blackwall..........................................
Bow Institution2..................2..................
Stepney Union Workhouse..........................................
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road1......1...............1............
Poplar Hospital2......|| 1...............1............
Institutions. Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the sub-districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—
Total CasesNotifications.Removals.
Small-pox.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.Erysipelas.Small-pox.Scarlatina.Diphtheria.Typhoid Fever.Puerperal Fever.| Erysipelas.
Poplar Union Workhouse6...211......2...1*1......*2
Sick Asylum5......2...†1...†2...2............
Sick Asylum, Blackwall..........................................
Bow Institution2..................2..................
Stepney Union Workhouse..........................................
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road1......1...............1............
Poplar Hospital2......|| 1...............1............

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* Admitted into Sick Asylum,
t Members of the Staff.
|| Member of the Staff.
Of the 275 patients notified in Poplar, 204 were removed to hospitals
and institutions ; of the 357 in Bromley 266 were isolated, and of the 197
in Bow 140 were removed, so that of a total of 829 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 610 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 Tables xxv.-xxviii., pages 72-75.