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Poplar 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XXVIII. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bow 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 | 96 | 3 | 35 | 55 | 2 | 1 | 7 | ||
| Cholera, Plague | |||||||||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 104 | 2 | 43 | 50 | 5 | 3 | 1 | *95 | |
| Erysipelas | 47 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 13 | †9 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 142 | 3 | 44 | 86 | 7 | 2 | 133 | ||
| Typhus Fever | |||||||||
| Enteric Fever | 1 | 1 | ‡1 | ||||||
| Relapsing Fever | |||||||||
| Continued Fever | |||||||||
| Puerperal Fever | 7 | 7 | 17 | ||||||
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | §4 | |||
| Poliomyelitis | 1 | 1 | ** | ||||||
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 3 | 3 | |||||||
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 128 | 5 | 30 | 15 | 45 | 33 | |||
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 44 | 2 | 11 | 22 | 5 | 3 | 1 | ||
| Zymotic Enteritis | 251 | 93 | 142 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| Totals | 828 | 108 | 286 | 258 | 39 | 85 | 50 | 2 | 256 |
* See page 114.
† See page 106.
‡ See page 109.
** See page 120.
¶ See page 103.
§ See page 118.