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Poplar 1920

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

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Of the 791 patients notified in Poplar, 728 were removed to hospitals
and institutions ; of the 920 in Bromley 858 were isolated, and of the 540
in Bow 501 were removed, so that of a total of 2,251 notifiable diseases
in the Borough 2,087 patients (exclusive of ophthalmia neonatorum) had
been removed from their homes.*
Institutions.

Table: Notifications of parishioners from Institutions (excluding cases which had been notified before admission) within the sub-districts of Poplar and Bromley were as follows:—

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.
Diphtheria.Erysipelas.Scarlet Fever.Enteric Fever.Puerperal Fever.Ophthalmia Neonatorum.Zymotic Enteritis.Pneumonia (all forms'.Diphtheria.Erysipelas.Scarlet Fever.Enteric Fever.Puerperal Fever.Zymotic Enteritis.Pni-umonia (all forms).
Poplar Institution7..31..1....2..3*1**..1*2*
St. Andrew's Hospital41§2§........§i1*2**......1*
Bow Institution................................
Bromley House Institution................................
Langley House, 54, East India Dock Road12....12..............12**........
Poplar Hospital2....1§........1‡....1†......1‡

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* Admitted into St. Andrew's Hospital. ** Removed to M.A.B. Hospitals.
§ Staff. ‡ Homeless, treated in Poplar Hospital,
† Removed to London Fever Hospital.
* See Tables XIX.—XXII., pages 44-47.