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Poplar 1926

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

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104
Zymotic Enteritis.
Notifications received 317
Died before notification received 15
Not traced and duplicates 18
Visited 284
Under 1 year (see feeding below) 81 (14 deaths).
1 to 2 years 98
2 to 3 years 45
3 to 4 years 31
4 to 5 years 29
Feeding.
Age period. Breast. Mixed feeding. Hand-fed. Not stated.
Under 1 year 19 27 21 -
Died — 6 8
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Number of notifications received 43
Died in Institutions 1
Sight of one eye damaged —
Recovered 42
Occurred in Institutions 3
Occurred in the practice of medical practitioners 5
Occurred in the practice of midwives 35
Admitted to hospital as in-patients 5
Treated as hospital out-patients 4
Treated privately 31
Visited by nurse 10
Vital Statistics, 1925.
All births, including those occurring in outlying
districts, but belonging to the Borough 4030
Attended by doctors 796
Attended by midwives 2218
Delivered in institutions 916
Not stated 100
Stillborn 95
Died before visit 86