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Poplar 1955
[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- y rs. | 15- yrs. | 25-y rs. | 45- y rs. | 65-yrs. | TOTAL | ||
| Diphtheria | - | - | - | . | 1 | - | _ | _ | 1 | 1 |
| Dysentery | 2 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 9 | 3 | - | 36 | 13 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 2 |
| Malaria | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Measles | 65 | 445 | 471 | 567 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1,559 | 34 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Cpthalmia Neonatorum | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 1 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 56 | 8 |
| Poliomyelitis, Ac.: Paralytic | 3 | 6 | 4 | 6 | - | - | 1 | - | 20 | 20 |
| Poliomyelitis, Ac.: Non-Paralytic | - | 2 | 3 | 4 | - | - | - | - | 9 | 9 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 7 | 20 | - | - | 27 | 27 |
| Scabies | - | 2 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 31 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 3 | 15 | 21 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 41 | 9 |
| Whooping Cough | 19 | 41 | 41 | 91 | - | - | - | - | 192 | 10 |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 23 | 26 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 60 | 12 |
| Tuberculosis, pulmonary | 1 | 1 | - | 2 | 11 | 20 | 20 | 4 | 59 | - |
| Tuberculosis, Meninges & C. N. S. | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | - |
| Tuberculosis, other forms | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | - |
| TOTALS | 116 | 540 | 554 | 723 | 37 | 77 | 51 | 16 | 2,114 | 149 |