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Poplar 1917

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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Table: TABLE XXV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar Sub-District.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1917.

TABLE XXV. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Poplar Sub-District.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1917.

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...........................
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)1487676554......*143
Erysipelas391214101011†13
Scarlet Fever8123542...11...‡72
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever19...3643......116
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever7.........43......§5
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis321...............**3
Poliomyelitis3...3..................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1818.....................
...Pulmonary Tuberculosis215...9344198303...
Other forirui of Tuberculosis116...3759884......
Zymotic Enteritis409701885724332710...
Totals1058100345264901607524252

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*See page 86. †See page 79 ‡See page 80. ¶See page 82.
§See page 76. **See page 90.