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Poplar 1935

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

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114
Cases Notified and Visited.
Number of notifications received 10
Very slight cases 3
Sight of one eye damaged —
Recovered 10
Occurred in Institutions 2
Occurred in the practice of medical practitioners 1
Occurred in the practice of midwives 7
Admitted to hospital as in-patients 5
Treated as hospital out-patients —
Treated privately 5
Visited by nurse 5
Zymotic Enteritis.—Notifiable June-September.
(Whole Borough).
Notifications received (Patients under 5 years) 22
Under 1 year (see feeding below) 8
1 to 2 years 7
2 to 3 years 7
3 to 4 years —
4 to 5 years —
Died before notification received —
Visited 22
Treated in hospitals 2
The 8 cases of Zymotic Enteritis under 1 year of age which were
notified, were fed as follows:—Breast-fed, 1; mixed feeding, 1;
hand-fed, 6.