London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972
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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Poplar 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Dysentery.
30 cases were notified and were treated in hospital. In 10 instances
the diagnosis was not confirmed. There were two 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 124.
Altered Diagnosis Cases.
186 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:—
46 Scarlet Fever; 119 Diphtheria; 2 Enteric Fever and Paratyphoid
Fever; 10 Dysentery; 6 Erysipelas; 1 Anthrax;
1 Continued Fever; and 1 Zymotic Enteritis.
The final diagnosis in the 46 Scarlet Fever cases was:—
| Erythema | 5 |
| Measles | 2 |
| Rubella | 10 |
| Tonsillitis | 12 |
| Tonsillitis and Measles | 1 |
| Acute Coryza | 1 |
| Acute Bronchitis | 1 |
| Whooping Cough .. | 2 |
| Influenza | 1 |
| Sudaminal Rash | 1 |
| Urticaria | 1 |
| Chickenpox | 1 |
| Scabies | 1 |
| Disease not specified | 7* |
| 46 |
* These were reported "Not notifiable," "Negative case," etc.