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Poplar 1928
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE VII. Notifiable diseases during the Year. (52 Weeks ended 29th December, 1928).
| Notifiable Disease. | Casks Notified in Whole Borough. | Total cases notified in each Sub- District. | No. of Cases removed to Hospital from each Sub District | Total Deaths in Age-Periods. | Total deaths in each Sub-District. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At all Ages. | At Ages—Years. | 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 . | 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. | |||
| Smallpox | 68 | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | 19 | 10 | 7 | 18 | 3 | 6 | - | 47 | 21 | 47 | 21 | 68 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cholera (C), Plague (P) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup) | 495 | 10 | 33 | 40 | 44 | 58 | 215 | 53 | 21 | 20 | 1 | - | - | 320 | 175 | 316 | 174 | 490 | 26 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 7 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 18 | 8 |
| Erysipelas | 90 | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 1 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 15 | 29 | 17 | 51 | 39 | 16 | 18 | 34 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Scarlet Fever | 633 | 5 | 14 | 38 | 45 | 61 | 313 | 91 | 37 | 28 | 2 | 1 | - | 404 | 231 | 403 | 223 | 626 | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Typhus Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Enteric Fever | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 4 | - | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Relapsing Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Continued Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7 | 3 | - | - | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 9 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | 2 | - | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Acute Encephalitis Lethargica | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 58 | 58 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 42 | 16 | 5 | 5 | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| *Zymotic Enteritis | 234 | 75 | 69 | 27 | 12 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 138 | 96 | 16 | 17 | 33 | 47 | 35 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 19 | 28 |
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia, Acute Primary | 547 | 73 | 65 | 45 | 40 | 34 | 80 | 22 | 23 | 56 | 38 | 48 | 23 | 403 | 141 | 76 | 55 | 131 | 87 | 25 | 7 | 1 | 6 | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 20 | 10 | 52 | 35 |
| „ Acute Influenzal | 15 | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| †Chickenpox | 442 | 19 | 38 | 38 | 38 | 54 | 216 | 32 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 228 | 214 | 12 | 8 | 20 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Malaria | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Dysentery | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | - |
| Totals | 2612 | 247 | 221 | 191 | 181 | 212 | 858 | 216 | 113 | 158 | 71 | 97 | 47 | 1660 | 952 | 903 | 534 | 1437 | 183 | 66 | 21 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 11 | 26 | 17 | 103 | 80 |
Note.—151 Cases reported "not suffering,'' etc., are excluded from the above table.
* Notifiable from 1st June to 30th September.
† Notifiable from 5th May, 1928 (see note on p. 92).
N.B.—The deaths from Pneumonia are of notified patients only.