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Poplar 1921

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

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Table: ERYSIPELAS. 95 cases of erysipelas were notified during the year : 28 Poplar, 43 Bromley, and 24 Bow. 47 patients were isolated as follows:—

ERYSIPELAS. 95 cases of erysipelas were notified during the year : 28 Poplar, 43 Bromley, and 24 Bow. 47 patients were isolated as follows:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Totals.
St. Andrew's Hospital12231146
Bow Institution—1—1
12241147

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Four deaths occurred—1 Poplar, 2 Bromley, and 1 Bow.

Table: SCARLET FEVER. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past five years were as follows:—

SCARLET FEVER. The number of Scarlet Fever cases notified for the three sub-districts and the deaths which occurred for the past five years were as follows:—

Poplar.Bromley.Bow.Borough of Poplar.
1917Cases notified817450205
Deaths1124
1918Cases notified978252231
Deaths—2—2
1919Cases notified11216296370
Deaths—44
1920Cases notified4866103041,400
Deaths66214
1921Cases notified5715273251,423
Deaths7613

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532 cases in Poplar (Sub-District) were removed to the Metropolitan
Asylums Board's Hospitals, 486 in Bromley and 302 in Bow. One
Bromley patient was treated in the London Fever Hospital and one
in the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. So that 1,322 patients out of
1,423 notified cases in the Borough were isolated.