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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 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE XI
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 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 42 | 10 |
| Encephalitis Acute | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Measles | 5 | 32 | 23 | 25 | 1 | - | - | - | 86 | 12 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Pneumonia | 5 | 10 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 12 | 16 | 17 | 77 | 9 |
| Poliomyeltis, Ac. Paralytic | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Poliomyeltis, Ac. NonParalytic | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | 19 | 8 | - | - | 27 | 27 |
| Scabies | - | 3 | - | 8 | 2 | 6 | 1 | - | 20 | - |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 13 | 29 | 85 | - | - | - | - | 127 | 1 |
| Whooping Cough | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | - | - | - | - | 22 | - |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 5 | 10 | 6 | - | - | - | - | - | 21 | 13 |
| Tuberculosis, pulmonary | - | - | - | 2 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 6 | 49 | - |
| Tuberculosis, Meninges & C. N. S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis, other forms | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | - |
| TOTALS | 23 | 82 | 76 | 144 | 31 | 58 | 44 | 27 | 485 | 74 |