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Poplar 1921
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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DIPHTHERIA, INCLUDING MEMBRANOUS CROUP. Notifications; Deaths; Bacteriological Examinations; Errors in Diagnosis; Isolation; The Diphtheria Anti-toxin (London) Order, 1910.
| Notifications. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cases notified:— | |||||
| Poplar. | Bromley | . | Bow. | Borough of Poplar. | |
| 1917 | 148 | 150 | 68 | 366 | |
| 1918 | 124 | 137 | 44 | 305 | |
| 1919 | 93 | 128 | 99 | 320 | |
| 1920 | 250 | 253 | 195 | 698 | |
| 1921 | 206 | 273 | 169 | 648 | |
| Notifications per 1,000 living:— | |||||
| Poplar. | Bromley. | Bow. | Borough of Poplar. | ||
| 1917 | 2.97 | 261 | 1.87 | 2.55 | |
| 1918 | 2.55 | 2.45 | 1.25 | 2.18 | |
| 1919 | 1.74 | 2.08 | 2.55 | 2.08 | |
| 1920 | 4.50 | 3.95 | 4.83 | 4.36 | |
| 1921 | 3.58 | 4.13 | 4.16 | 3.94 | |
| Deaths Number of deaths for the past five years was as follows | |||||
| Poplar. | Bromley. | Bow. | Borough of Poplar | Mortality per 100 cases notified. | |
| 1917 | 6 | 13 | 4 | 23 | 6.28 |
| 1918 | 8 | 16 | 7 | 31 | 10.16 |
| 1919 | 11 | 13 | 14 | 38 | 11.87 |
| 1920 | 17 | 30 | 12 | 59 | 8.45 |
| 1921 | 26 | 24 | 14 | 64 | 9.87 |
For death rates from diphtheria, also see Table XVIII., page 43.