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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 1954
[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 | - | - | -1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | -1 |
| Dysentery | 6 | 12 | 6 | 23 | 5 | 14 | 7 | 2 | 75 | 27 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 3 | - | 5 | 1 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Measles | 3 | 10 | 13 | 14 | - | - | - | - | 40 | 1 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 4 | 4 |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 10 | 55 | 9 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 11 | 8 | - | - | 19 | 19 |
| Scabies | - | - | 2 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | 19 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 5 | 22 | 31 | 2 | - | - | - | 60 | 7 |
| Whooping Cough | 9 | 26 | 31 | 34 | - | 1 | - | - | 101 | 17 |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 21 | 11 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | 10 |
| Tuberculosis, pulmonary | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 20 | 22 | 1 | 62 | - |
| Tuberculosis, other forms | - | - | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | - |
| TOTALS | 46 | 69 | 91 | 120 | 39 | 63 | 52 | 14 | 494 | 98 |