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Poplar 1953
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE VIII INFECTIOUS DISEASE
| DISEASE | Corrected Notifications | Removed to Hospital | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0- yrs | 1- yrs | 3- yrs | 5- yrs | 15- yrs | 25- yrs | 45- yrs | 65- yrs | TOTAL | ||
| Diphtheria | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | _ | |
| Dysentery | 1 | 7 | 4 | 18 | - | 2 | 1 | 2 | 35 | 18 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 6 | - |
| Measles | 49 | 214 | 197 | 317 | 2 | 1 | - | - | 780 | 23 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 19 | 70 | 3 |
| Poliomyelitis (paralytic) | 1 | 2 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 5 | 5 |
| Poliomyelitis (non-paralytic) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 19 | 12 | - | - | 31 | 31 |
| Scabies | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | - | 2 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 2 | 27 | 55 | 2 | - | - | - | 86 | 7 |
| Whooping Cough | 43 | 75 | 70 | 124 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 314 | 16 |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 15 | 13 | 5 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 34 | 17 |
| Tuberculosis, pulmonary | - | 2 | - | 9 | 16 | 36 | 15 | 5 | 83 | - |
| Tuberculosis, other forms | - | - | - | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | - | 10 | - |
| TOTALS | 118 | 321 | 305 | 533 | 49 | 67 | 40 | 28 | 1,461 | 123 |
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