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Poplar 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Notifications; Institutions; Errors in Diagnosis; Bacteriological
Examinations; Infectious Diseases in Milk Shops
and on homeworkers' premises; metropolitan asylums
Board Accommodation; Civil and Military Sanitary
Services Co-operation.
Notifications.
There were 422 notifications of infectious diseases in Poplar, 549 in
Bromley, and 405 in Bow, making a total of 1,376 for the Borough of
Poplar ; these do not include 78 second notifications.
In the above figures no deductions have been made for cases removed
to the Metropolitan Asylums Board's hospitals, which were certified as
not having a notifiable disease.
The notification rate per 1,000 living being:—
| Poplar. | Bromley. | Bow. | Borough of Poplar. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 5.43 | 6.87 | 7.55 | 6.54 . |
| 1907 | 11.44 | 12.51 | 9.37 | 11.34 |
| 1908 | 9.07 | 12.43 | 11.15 | 10.91 |
| 1909 | 7.91 | 6.92 | 5.69 | 6.96 |
| 1910 | 5.30 | 6.42 | 4.22 | 5.46 |
| 1911 | 6.20 | 7.08 | 7.13 | 6.79 |
| 1912 | 4.90 | 550 | 4.84 | 5.13 |
| 1913 | 9.55 | 8.00 | 8.50 | 8.66 |
| 1914 | 8.21 | 8.64 | 9.16 | 8.62 |
| 1915 | 7.77 | 8.77 | 10.27 | 8.80 |
* Exclusive of Zymotic Enteritis.