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Poplar 1920

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

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Table: TABLE XXI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bromley Sub-District.Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1920.

TABLE XXI.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bromley Sub-District.

Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1920.

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in 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-pox6.........123...6
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)25312931291261...243*
Erysijelas321...23158315†
Scarlet Fever610712241454121579‡
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever5......113......31¶
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Faerperal Fever8.........341...8§
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis3......111......1**
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica3.........1...2...3††
Ophthalmia Neonatorum2525.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis193112253781352...
Other forms of Tuberculosis68...1639832......
Zymotic Enteritis55212572............
Anthrax...........................
Pneumonia (all forms)2113153262444276...
Malaria6............6......2
Dysentery...........................
Totals1,478983216441471778011860

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* See cage 64. † See Page 60. † See page 60. ¶ See page 62. § See page 59.
** See page 67. ft See page 68.