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Poplar 1928

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

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Table: Statistical Summary.January ist to December 31 st, 1928.

Statistical Summary.

January ist to December 31 st, 1928.

Bow.Poplar.Totals.
Number of attendances5.4444,68410,128
,, ,, sessions290244534
,, ,, patients306302608

Table: The cases have been grouped as follows:—

The cases have been grouped as follows:—

Group I.—Rachitic:—
(a) Severe44
(b) Slight skeletal27
(c) Muscular25
—96
„2.—Delayed dentition24
„3d.—Disturbances with dentition38
„4.—Bronchitis and Bronchial catarrh14
„5.—Enlarged glands10
„6.—Recovery after illness46
„7.—Restlessness9
„8.—Fretfulness4
„9.—Nervousness6
„10.—Mongol1
„11.—Mentally deficient2
„12.—Asthma1
„13.—Malnutritution73
„14.—Debility70
„15.—Mothers50
„16.—Miscellaneous cases (not reported).
Less than 5 attendances86
Current cases75
Staff3
164
608