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Poplar 1917

[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 Workhouse101....1......8*1..‡1......** 8
Sick Asylum1..............1..............
Bow Institution................................
Bromley House Institution................................
Children's Receiving Home, 54, East India Dock Road................................
Poplar Hospital................................

*Admitted into Sick Asylum.
**6 Admitted to Sick Asylum, 2 to
Bromlev I ouse Institution.
‡Admitted to M.A.B. Hospital.
Of the 318 patients notified in Poplar, 252 were removed to hospitals
and institutions; of the 314 in Bromley 233 were isolated, and of the 157
in Bow 127 were removed, so that of a total of 789 notifiable diseases
jn the Borough 612 patients had been removed from their homes.*

Errors in Diagnosis.The corrected number of notifications would be—

Poplar318 — 10 = 308 or 618 per 1000 living.
Bromley314 — 7 = 307 or 5-34 ,,
Bow157 — 7 = 150 or 414 ,,
Borough of Poplar789 — 24 = 765 or 5 33 ,,

*See Tables xxiv.-xxvii., pages 59-62.