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Poplar 1917
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Isolation.
Sixteen cases in Poplar, thirteen in Bromley and four in Bow were
removed to various hospitals, as follows:—
POPLAR (Sub-District).
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals 12
Sick Asylum 2
Poplar Hospital 2
16
BROMLEY.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospitals 8
Sick Asylum 5
13
BOW.
Metropolitan Asylums Board's Hospital 2
Sick Asylum 2
4
Errors of Diagnosis.
Three eases sent to Metropolitan Asylums Board Hospitals from
Poplar, two from Bromley and two from Bow, were certified as not
suffering from typhoid fever.
Bacteriological Examinations of Doubtful and
Convalescent Cases.
Sixteen specimens of blood from doubtful cases of typhoid fever
were forwarded to the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine. In
eleven instances (68.7 per cent.) the typhoid (Widal) reaction was obtained.