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Poplar 1935
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE VII a.
N otifiable diseases, cases and deaths by wards, 1935.
| Notifiable Disease. | Cases Notified. | Deaths. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bow. | Bromley. | Poplar. | Bow. | Bromley. | Poplar. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Whole Borough. | North. | West. | Cent. | South. | North-West. | North-East. | South -West. | South-East. | Cent. | North-West. | West. | East. | Mill-wall. | Cubitt Town. | Whole. Borough. | North. | West. | Cent. | South. | North-West. | North-East. | Southwest . | South-East. | Cent. | North-W est. | West. | East. | Mill- 1 wall. | Cubitt Town. | |
| Smallpox | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | _ | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Chickenpox | 400 | 14 | 16 | 9 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 60 | 15 | 33 | 24 | 32 | 78 | 67 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup).. | 445 | 29 | 26 | 22 | 12 | 16 | 46 | 72 | 36 | 45 | 43 | 16 | 35 | 33 | 14 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 | |||||
| Erysipelas | 74 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 9 | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 309 | 15 | 21 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 27 | 24 | 35 | 33 | 15 | 43 | 23 | 20 | |||||||||||||||
| Typhus Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Enteric Fever (including Paratyphoid) | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Relapsing Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Continued Fever | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | –– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | ||
| Puerperal Fever | 12 | 1 | 2 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | –_ | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | - | – | – | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | 19 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | o | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | |
| Cerebro-Spinal Fever | 5 | – | 1 | – | - | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | - | – | 1 | – | - | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | 3 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Acute Encephalitis Lethargica | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 10 | – | – | – | 1 | 2 | 2 | - | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| *Zymotic Enteritis | 33 | – | – | – | – | 7 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | I | – | 15 | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | – | 1 | – | 4 | 2 | – | 3 | – | – | |
| Anthrax | – | c– | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | –– | – | – | – | ||
| Pneumonia, Acute Primary | 238 | 6 | – | – | 10 | 13 | 27 | 31 | 18 | 27 | 32 | 23 | 19 | 14 | 11 | †43 | 1 | 1 | – | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| ,, Acute Influenzal | 16 | 1 | - | 4 | - | 5 | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | 1 | 1 | I | †1 | – | – | –_ | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Acute Polioencephalitis | – | – | – | – | - | – | - | – | – | – | - | – | – | – | – | **1 | – | --– | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Dysentery | 2 | – | – | - | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | §3 | – | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Malaria | – | – | – | - | – | - | - | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | --• | – | - | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | |
| Totals | 1566 | 70 | 74 | 55 | 53 | 83 | 125 | 156 | 148 | 132 | 161 | 85 | 143 | 155 | 126 | 87 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 13 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 8 |
* § † ‡** See notes at foot of Table VII.