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Poplar 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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PUERPERAL FEVER.
Number op Cases.
Eight cases of puerperal fever were notified. One patient died.
CONTINUED AND TYPHUS FEVERS.
No cases of continued fever occurred. No case of typhus fever
occurred.
SPOTTED FEVER.
EPIDEMIC CEREBRO-SPINAL MENINGITIS.*
Three cases occurred. All terminated fatally.
ACUTE POLIO -MYELITIS, OR ACUTE POLIO -ENCEPHALITIS.
AND ACUTE ENCEPHALITIS LETHARGICA.
Four cases of Acute Polio-myelitis and Poli-encephalitis were notified.
One patient died.
Fourteen cases of Encephalitis Lethargica occurred. Six patients
died. One other patient died from Cerebral Abscess (gumma).
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
Notifications of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
The total notifications received numbered 55.
| Year. | Cases | Vision unimpaired. | Vision impaired. | Total Blindness. | Deaths. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Notified. | Treated | ||||||
| At home. | In hospital. | ||||||
| 1914 | 75 | 70 | 5 | 73 | _ | _ | 2 |
| 1915 | 64 | 62 | 2 | 62 | 1 | _ | 1 |
| 1916 | 60 | 60 | _ | 60 | _ | _ | — |
| 1917 | 391 | 37 | 1 | 36 | 1 | _ | 1 |
| 1918 | 40 | 38 | 2 | 39 | 1 | _ | — |
| 1919 | 61 | 51 | 10 | 60 | 1 | _ | — |
| 1920 | 61 | 51 | 10 | 59 | — | _ | 2 |
| 1921 | 47 | 41 | 6 | 42 | 2 | 2 | |
| 1922 | 36 | 33 | 3 | 34 | 1 | _ | 1 |
| 1923 | 38 | 30 | 8 | 35 | — | _ | 3 |
| 1924 | 46 | 38 | 8 | 46 | — | — | — |
| Totals .. | 567 | 511 | 55 | 546 | 7 | 1 | 12 |
* Posterior basal meningitis is included in theterm " cerebro spinal fever,"
which does not include meningitis due to tuberculosis, syphilis, middle ear
disease, or injury.
** 1 born in Institution—not visited, no information available.