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Poplar 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE VI.
T he B orough.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified in Whole Borough. | Total cases notified in each Sub-District. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Sub-District. | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Under 1. | 1 to 2. | 2 to 3. | 3 to 4. | 4 to 5. | 5 to 10. | 10 to 15. | 15 to 20. | 20 to 35. | 35 to 45. | 45 to 65. | 65 and upwards. | Poplar. | Bow and Bromley. | Poplar. | Bow and Bromley. | Total Cases Removed. | |||
| Smallpox | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Cholera (C), Plague (P) | __ | _ | _, | _ | - | - | _ | __ | _ | _ | _ | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 411 | 9 | 17 | 31 | 47 | 54 | 173 | 41 | 16 | 20 | 3 | _ | _ | 271 | 140 | ?69 | 138 | 407 | |
| Erysipelas | 71 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | __ | 6 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 32 | 5 | 45 | 26 | 22 | 17 | 39 | |
| Scarlet Fever | 610 | 5 | 21 | 50 | 43 | 69 | 277 | 100 | 18 | 24 | 3 | - | - | 411 | 199 | 404 | 196 | 600 | |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | _ | -— | — | — | _ | _ | — | _ | _ | __ | _ | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Enteric Fever | — | — | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | -__ | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Puerperal Fever | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 10 | 2 | _ | _ | 5 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 11 | |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 1 | _ | _ | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis | 3 | __ | - | 1 | _ | _ | 1 | __ | __ | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| (a)Acute Poliomyelitis & (b) Acute Polioencephalitis | 2(a) | 1(a) | — | — | — | — | 1(a) | — | - | - | _ | _ | _ | 2(a) | - | 1(a) | 1(a) | ||
| Acute Encephalitis Lethargica | 5 | _ | — | 1 | — | — | _ | — | 1 | 2 | _ | _ | 1 | 2 | 3 | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 43 | 43 | — | — | - | — | — | — | - | _ | _ | _ | - | 27 | 16 | 3 | 5 | ||
| *Zymotic Enteritis | 623 | 93 | 103 | 50 | 33 | 29 | 62 | 36 | 37 | 69 | 37 | 59 | 15 | 405 | 218 | 20 | 9 | 29 | |
| Anthrax | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | - | _ | _ | ___ | _ | _ | _ | |
| Trench Fever | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | — | _ | _ | _ | - | - | - | - | |
| Pneumonia (all forms) | 533 | 67 | 53 | 50 | 41 | 29 | 70 | 21 | 19 | 55 | 35 | 55 | 38 | 379 | 154 | 90 | 70 | 160 | |
| Malaria | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | — | - | - | - | - | - | -- | - | |
| Dysentery | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | _ | — | — | _ | |
| Totals | 2326 | 222 | 196 | 184 | 166 | 181 | 590 | 199 | 96 | 201 | 86 | 146 | 59 | 1555 | 771 | 817 | 446 | 1263 | |
| Pulmonary Tuberculosis | 256 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 10 | 29 | 1 14 | 40 | 44 | 3 | 213 | 152 | — | — | - | ||
| Other forms of Tuberculosis | 109 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 10 | 27 | 18 | 10 | 15 | 3 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Totals | 2691 | 229 | 206 | 186 | 174 | 192 | 624 | 227 | 135 | 330 | 129 | 196 | 63 | 1768 | 923 | — | — | __ | |
Note.—154 Cases reported "not suffering," etc., are excluded from the above table,
♦ Notifiable from 1st June to 30th September.