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Poplar 1914

[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-two 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-two 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 notified236.23687559
Deaths55414
1902Cases notified182341150673
Deaths511521
1903Cases notified17817794449
Deaths85720
1901Cases notified162271116549
Deaths1012224
1905Cases notified285551155991
Deaths517628
1906Cases notified157281133571
Deaths56112
1907Cases notified4785942111,283
Deaths1522643
1908Cases notified3955503341,279
Deaths1020636
1909Cases notified308281138727
Deaths910322
1910Cases notified17322078471
Deaths29112
1911Cases notified109150116375
Deaths36110
1912Cases notified10914659314
Deaths1203
1913Cases notified332276148756
Deaths101112
1914Cases notified233243187663
Deaths16310

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208 cases in Poplar (Sub-District) were removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals, 227 in Bromley and 176 in Bow. So that
611 patients out of 663 notified cases in the Borough were isolated.