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Poplar 1929
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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The 13 patients suffering from after-effects (excluding those in Institutions) were affected as follows:—
| Intelligence below normal | 1 |
| Sleep, poor or excessive, with defects of vision in one case | 5 |
| Paralysis—severe 1, slight 1 | 2 |
| Conduct abnormal (very spiteful, tendency to become hysterical, bad tempered, etc.) | 4 |
| Suffering from after-effects of accident, otherwise apparently well | 1 |
| 13 |
ACUTE POLIO-ENCEPHALITIS.
No case of Acute Polio-Encephalitis was notified.
POST-VACCINAL ENCEPHALITIS, Etc.
3 cases of Post-Vaccinal infection were reported.
2 of the cases were notified as Encephalitis Lethargica. 1 patient
died in Poplar Hospital, and the other recovered. The cause of death
was certified "Post-Vaccinal Meningo-Encephalitis."
The third case was not notified. This patient also died in Poplar
Hospital, the cause of death being certified as "Encephalo-Meningitis
due to Vaccination.''
Reports on these cases were forwarded to the Ministry of Health.
1 other case was reported, but there was some doubt as to the diagnosis.
This case was seen by a Medical Officer from the Ministry of Health.
MEASLES.
1,059 cases of measles were reported to the Medical Officer of Health
from various sources (principally from L.C.C. schools). 11 deaths were
attributed to measles.
During the year 152 cases of measles were admitted to M.A.B.
Hospitals from the Borough.