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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 1961
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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TABLE X
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 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | — | 2 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 7 |
| Erysipelas | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| Measles | 72 | 165 | 407 | 667 | 19 | 3 | — | — | 1, 333 | 21 |
| Meningococcal Infection | 1 | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 3 |
| Pneumonia | 4 | — | 6 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 10 | 29 | 67 | 19 |
| Poliomyelitis, Ac. Paralytic | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 |
| Poliomyelitis. Ac. Non-Paralytic | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | — | — | — | — | 1 | 10 | — | — | 11 | 11 |
| Scabies | — | — | 3 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 23 | 2 |
| Scarlet Fever | 2 | 1 | 17 | 40 | — | — | — | — | 60 | 2 |
| Typhoid | — | — | 1 | 4 | 1 | — | — | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Whooping Cough | — | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | — | — | — | 15 | — |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 12 | — |
| Tuberculosis, pulmonary | 1 | — | — | 3 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 40 | — |
| Tuberculosis, Meninges and C. N. S. | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tuberculosis, other forms | — | 1 | — | 2 | — | 3 | 1 | — | 7 | — |
| 85 | 175 | 454 | 735 | 34 | 44 | 28 | 52 | 1607 | 75 | |