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Poplar 1913

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

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Table: SCARLET FEVER. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past twenty-one years were as follows:—

SCARLET FEVER. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past twenty-one years were as follows:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1893Cases notified6278543131,794
Deaths394813100
1894Cases notified239331225795
Deaths1222842
1895Cases notified3433303291,002
Deaths2019847
1896Cases notified274429243946
Deaths819734
1897Cases notified2514763731,100
Deaths6121028
1898Cases notified207325106638
Deaths313622
1899Cases notified142179102423
Deaths2439
1900Cases notified24616885499
Deaths3317
1901Cases notified23623687559
Deaths55414
1902Cases notified182341150673
Deaths511521
1903Cases notified17817794449
Deaths85720
1904Cases notified162271116549
Deaths1012224
1905Cases notified285551155991
Deaths517628
1906Cases notified157281133571
Deaths56112
1907Cases notified4785942113 283
Deaths1522643
1908Cases notified3955503341,279
Deaths1020636
1909Cases notified308281138727
Deaths910322
1910Cases notified17322078471
Deaths29112
1911Cases notified109150116375
Deaths36110
1912Cases notified10914659314
Deaths1203
1913Cases notified332276148756
Deaths101112

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318 cases in Poplar (Sub-District) were removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals, 257 in Bromley and 138 in Bow. So that
713 patients out of 756 notified cases in the Borough were isolated.
On May 2nd a letter was received from one of the London County
Council School Medical Officers concerning 7 school children, resident
in Poplar, who were contacts of a case of Scarlet Fever, removed to the
Brook Hospital on April 28th. All were reported on inquiry to be in
good health. The case occurred in a school boy of Flint Street, Bromley,
and subsequently (on May 15th) a further case occurred in a sister of
the first patient, not included in the above 7 contacts,
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