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Poplar 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XXVI.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar Sub-District.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in whole Sub-District. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from Sub-District. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | ||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 5. | 5 to 15. | 15 to 25. | 25 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards | |||
| Small-pox | |||||||||
| Chicken-pox | 51 | 5 | 22 | 24 | 9 | ||||
| Cholera, Plague | |||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 86 | 2 | 39 | 40 | 5 | *80 | |||
| Erysipelas | 54 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 15 | 17 | †16 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 168 | 2 | 43 | 103 | 18 | 2 | 154 | ||
| Typhus Fever | |||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 10 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | ‡10 | |||
| Relapsing Fever | |||||||||
| Continued Fever | |||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | §6 | ||||
| Poliomyelitis | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | **2 | ||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 37 | 37 | |||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 163 | 1 | 14 | 34 | 25 | 60 | 27 | 2 | |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 111 | 6 | 31 | 49 | 16 | 4 | 3 | 2 | |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 507 | 137 | 245 | 34 | 17 | 33 | 32 | 9 | |
| Totals | 1203 | 202 | 400 | 294 | 90 | 120 | 79 | 18 | 277 |
* See page 114.
† See page 106,
‡ See page 109.
§ See page 118.
** See page 120.
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