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Poplar 1915
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Institutions.
Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the sub.districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—
| Total Cases. | Notifications. | Removals. | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zymotic Enteritis. | Chicken-pox. | Ophthalmia Neonatorum. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Typhoid Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | Zymotic Enteritis. | Chicken-pox. | Scarlatina. | Diphtheria. | Typhoid Fever. | Puerperal Fever. | Erysipelas. | ||
| Poplar Union Workhouse | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | *6 | *2 | *2 | |||||||||
| Sick Asylum | 3 | †l | †2 | †l | †2 | |||||||||||
| Bow Institution | ||||||||||||||||
| Bromley House Institution | ||||||||||||||||
| Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road | 9 | 1 | 7 | 1 | *7 | 1 | ||||||||||
| Poplar Hospital | ||||||||||||||||
* Admitted into Sick Asylum.
† Members of the Staff.
Of the 422 patients notified in Poplar, 277 were removed to hospitals
and institutions ; of the 549 in Bromley 288 were isolated, and of the 405
in Bow 256 were removed, so that of a total of 1,376 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 821 patients had been removed from their homes.*
Errors in Diagnosis.
In giving the above numbers of notifications, no deductions have
been made for the following cases, which it will be seen developed other
diseases either shortly after admission or after being in the hospital some
time, whilst the list also shows that some patients removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's hospitals, after being detained in those institutions
some days, were returned home certified as not suffering from the
complaint or any other notifiable disease.
* See Tables xxv.-xxviii., pages 68-71.