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Poplar 1913

[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 Workhouse3...1...1......1......*1.........
Sick Asylum2............†l...†l..................
Sick Asylum, Blackball..........................................
Bow Institution4..................4...............*2
Stepney Union Workhouse..........................................
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road1..................1...............*1
Poplar Hospital1.........||1...............1.........

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* Admitted into Sick Asylum,
† Members of the Staff.
|| Member of the Staff.
Of the 534 patients notified in Poplar, 425 were removed to hospitals
and institutions; of the 516 in Bromley 386 were isolated, and of the 345
in Bow 282 were removed, so that of a total of 1,395 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 1,093 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 86-89.