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Poplar 1915

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

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CONTENTS.
PAGE
I ublic Health and Housing Committee vii
Public Health Department
.Summary of Vital Statistics x
List of Boundary Streets and Roads xi
inhabited Houses in the Registration Sub-Districts, Census, 1911 xii
Vital Statistics X
Population 1
Births and Transferable Births 2
Birth Rate 5
Illegitimate Births 6
Marriages 7
Marriage Rate 7
Deaths 7
Deaths of lllegitimate'Children 8
Death Rate 9
Zymotic Diseases, Death Rate 9
Respiratory Diseases, Death Rate 10
Infantile Mortality, Notification of Births Act, 1907 11
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Notifications, Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum)
Regulations, 1914 12
Age Mortality 12
Tubercular Diseases, Deaths, Death Rate 13
Phthisis—Deaths 14
Prevention of Consumption—Notifications ; Treatment of Tuberculosis, Notifications
under the Tuberculosis Regulations, Summaries of Notifications Received ;
Number of Notifications on Form D ; List of Non-Pulmonary Cases ; Actual
Number of Cases on Register at end of year 1915. Bacteriological Examinations,
Streets with which cases of Tuberculosis were Connected ; The Borough
of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption ; Deaths, Tubercular
Diseases and Phthisis Number and Rate (see page 13); Disinfection of Rooms
and Articles (see page 91); Milk and Dairies Act 14
Tables of Deaths 37
Deaths from Drowning, &c. 40
Deaths of Persons of Unknown Addresses, included in the Mortality Statistics.. 40
Vital Statistics, Tables 41
?sotes on Nomenclature of Diseases 46
Tables of Deaths (Classification); Deaths 48
' aJ'Jes °f Deaths in Public Institutions and Certain Localities 65
rabies of Infectious Diseases 68
Zymotic Diseases, Notifications ; Institutions, Errors in Diagnosis ; Bacteriological
Examinations; Infectious Diseases in Milkshops and on Homeworkers'
Premises ; Metropolitan Asylums Board Accommodation ; Civil and Military
Sanitary Services Co-operation 72
Alphabetical Street List of Infectious Diseases 81
Disinfecting Department—Rooms and Articles (Infectious Diseases anc? Verminous)
Disinfected 91
Electrolytic Disinfecting Fluid—Output of Fluid, Distribution of Fluid, Cost of
Material and Electricity, Bottles, Corks and Labels, Total Quantity Manufactured
since Installation of Plant, Expenditure for the year ended 31st
March, 1915, and for half-year ended 30th September, 1915, Average expenditure
for the three years ended March, 1915. Estimated Expenditure
for the year ending 31st March, 1916, and for the year ending 31st March, 1917,
Spraying and Cleansing of Floors ofJLondon County Council Schools with
Electrolytic Fluid, Swimming Baths—the use therein of Electrolytic Disinfecting
Fluid, Comments on Adverse Criticisms 92