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Poplar 1920

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

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

TABLE XXII.

METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bow 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-pox...........................
Cholera, Plague...........................
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)1955581111371...191
Erysipelas263...52952†6
Scarlet Fever304459220174......‡291
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever3.........111¶2
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever6............6......§G
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis4......4............**3
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica1............1......††1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1111..................3
Pulmonary Tuberculosis130...3272944261...
Other forms of Tuberculosis3826184611...
Zymotic Enteritis18125......1.........
Anthrax1............1......||1
German Measles...........................
Pneumonia (all forms)1192436111120107...
Malaria3............3.........
Dysentery...........................
Totals85961167396771034411504

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* See page 64. †See page 00. ‡See page 60.
** See page 67. ††See page 68.
¶ See page 62. § See page 59.
|| See page 58.