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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 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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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 | ||
| Dysentery | 6 | 23 | 17 | 24 | 8 | 14 | 3 | - | 95 | 26 |
| Erysipe]as | - | - | - | - | 1 | - | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| Measles | 19 | 80 | 116 | 177 | - | - | - | - | 392 | 7 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | - | 2 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 5 | 5 |
| Opthalmia Neonatorum | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Paratyphoid 'B' | - | 1 | - | - | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Pneumonia | - | 1 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 14 | 10 | 47 | 6 |
| Poliomyelitis, Ac.:Paralytic | - | 2 | 2 | 2 | - | 1 | - | - | 7 | 7 |
| Poliomyelitis, Ac.: NonParalytic | _ | _ | 1 | 3 | _ | 4 | 4 | |||
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 1 | 4 | _ | _ | 5 | 5 |
| Scabies | - | - | 2 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 15 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 2 | 9 | 19 | 3 | - | - | - | 33 | 2 |
| Whooping Cough | 23 | 38 | 40 | 72 | 1 | - | - | - | 174 | 13 |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 13 | 12 | 8 | - | - | - | - | - | 33 | 4 |
| Tuberculosis, pulmonary | - | 2 | - | 2 | 10 | 22 | 15 | 7 | 58 | - |
| Tuberculosis, Meninges & C. N. S. | _ | _ | - | _ | _ | - | - | . | _ | |
| Tuberculosis, other forms | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | - | - | 6 | - |
| TOTALS | 64 | 161 | 199 | 314 | 30 | 58 | 36 | 20 | 882 | 84 |