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Poplar 1936
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Malaria.
No cases of Malaria were notified during the year.
Dysentery.
Six cases were notified and were treated in hospital. In two instances
the diagnosis was not confirmed. There were no deaths.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
A complete summary of cases notified and visited is given in the
Section of this Report dealing with Maternity and Child Welfare, page 121.
Altered Diagnosis Cases.
114 patients who had been notified and removed to hospitals as
suffering from infectious disease were later certified to be suffering from
some condition other than that which was notified:—
28 Scarlet Fever; 75 Diphtheria; 1 Puerperal Fever; 1 Cerebrospinal
Fever; 2 Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid Fever;
2 Dysentery; 1 Acute Poliomyelitis; and 4 Zymotic Enteritis.
The final diagnosis in the 28 Scarlet Fever cases was:—
| Erythema | 2 |
| Measles | 4 |
| Rubella | 2 |
| Tonsillitis | 6 |
| Laryngitis | 1 |
| Disease not specified | *13 |
| 28 |
* These were reported "Not notifiable," "Negative case," etc.
The final diagnosis in the 75 Diphtheria cases was:—
| Tonsillitis | 34 |
| Laryngitis | 6 |
| Varicella | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 |
| Gastro-Enteritis | 1 |
| Measles | 4 |
| Disease not specified | *27 |
| 75 |
* These were reported "Negative case," "Not notifiable," etc.
In addition, there were 8 cases reported as Bacteriological Diphtheria.
These have been included as cases of Diphtheria.