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Poplar 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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| Notifications received | .. | 57 |
| Under 1 year (see feeding below) | 28 | |
| 1 to 2 years | 20 | |
| 2 to 3 years | 5 | |
| 3 to 4 years | 3 | |
| 4 to 5 years | 1 | |
| Died before notification received | •• | Nil |
| Visited | •• | 57 |
| Treated in hospitals | 7 | |
Of the 28 cases of Zymotic Enteritis under 1 year of age which were
notified, 1 died. This was hand-fed. The remaining 27 were fed as
follows:—Breast-fed, 10; mixed feeding, 9; hand-fed, 8.
Home Nursing.
By arrangement with the Nursing Associations nursing is provided
(with the consent of the practitioner attending a patient) and paid for by
the Council at the rate of is. 3d. per visit, in cases of Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Measles, Whooping Cough, Pneumonia, Zymotic Enteritis,
Pemphigus, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.