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Poplar 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XXVII.
METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bromley 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 | 131 | 14 | 52 | 64 | 1 | 2 | |||
| Cholera, Plague | |||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 120 | 3 | 39 | 69 | 9 | *102 | |||
| Erysipelas | 87 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 22 | 23 | 14 | †17 |
| Scarlet Fever | 109 | 1 | 56 | 95 | 11 | 6 | 154 | ||
| Typhus Fever | |||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ‡6 | |||
| Relapsing Fever | |||||||||
| Continued Fever | |||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 4 | 4 | ¶3 | ||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | |||||
| Poliomyelitis | ** | ||||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 24 | 24 | |||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 221 | 4 | 13 | 47 | 41 | 88 | 24 | 4 | |
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 91 | 8 | 32 | 44 | 5 | 2 | |||
| Zymotic Enteritis | 831 | 189 | 376 | 51 | 36 | 104 | 59 | 16 | |
| Totals | 1693 | 246 | 581 | 383 | 112 | 229 | 108 | 34 | 288 |
* See page 114.
† See page 106.
‡ See page 109.
** See page 120.
¶See page 103.
§ See page 118.