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Poplar 1964
[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 | ||
| Anthrax | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Dysentery | 6 | 23 | 17 | 64 | 19 | 28 | 13 | 9 | 179 | 16 |
| Encephalitis, Acute | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | - | - | - | l | - | 1 | - |
| Measles | 28 | 115 | 146 | 126 | 1 | - | - | - | 416 | 5 |
| Meningococcal Infection | - | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Pneumonia | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 35 | 2 |
| Poliomyelitis, Acute | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | - | - | 2 | 2 |
| Scabies | - | - | 2 | 6 | 1 | 4 | - | 1 | 14 | 1 |
| Scarlet Fever | - | 12 | 30 | 67 | 2 | - | - | - | 111 | 1 |
| Typhoid | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Whooping Cough | - | 9 | 8 | 9 | - | - | - | - | 26 | - |
| Zymotic Enteritis | 8 | 10 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 20 | - |
| Tuberculosis, Pulmonary | - | 1 | - | 1 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 7 | 32 | - |
| Tuberculosis, Meninges and C.N.S. | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Tuberculosis, Other forms | - | - | - | - | - | 4 | - | 1 | 5 | - |
| TOTALS | 43 | 171 | 207 | 275 | 27 | 58 | 35 | 26 | 842 | 28 |