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Poplar 1921

[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 1921.

TABLE XXI. METROPOLITAN BOROUGH OF POPLAR. Bromley Sub-District. Cases of Infectious Disease notified during the Year 1921.

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)27361081391271...2671
Erysipelas431167713824†
Scarlet Fever5271114132535141...488‡
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever3......111......3¶
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever7.........25......5§
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis42...2............32
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica3...21............3††
Polioencephalitis1...1..................
Ophthalmia Neonatorum1212..................3
Pulmonary Tuberculosis16323123582272...
Other forms of Tuberculosis48315136101...
Zymotic Enteritis1284253921093...
Anthrax.................................
Pneumonia (all forms)13111391818162210...
Malaria4............4.........
Dysentery...........................
Totals1,350903635261181567324796

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* See page 63. † See page 60 † See page 60. ¶ See page 61. § See page 59.
** See page 67. ft See page 67.