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Poplar 1921

[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 1921.

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

Notifiable Disease.Cases Notified in Sob-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)1697538214121*166
Erysipelas2411121162†11
Scarlet Fever325172223236......‡302
Typhus Fever...........................
Enteric Fever4......22............
Relapsing Fever...........................
Continued Fever...........................
Puerperal Fever5.........14......§5
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis2...1...1.........**2
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica2.........11......††1
Ophthalmia Neonatorum33.....................
Pulmonary Tuberculosis87...1111738182...
Other forms of Tuberculosis17139...31...
Zymotic Enteritis351715......21......
Anthrax...........................
Pneumonia (all forms)8591415119198...
Malaria.1......1............1
Dysentery...........................
Totals7593916034472864612492

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