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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The following Infectious diseases are at present notifiable in Fulham:-
Acute Encephalitis
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute Poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Continued Fever
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Epidemic Diarrhœa (Under
5 years of age)
Erysipelas
Pood Poisoning
Glanders
Hydrophobia in Man
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Membranous Croup
Meningococcal Infection
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Plague
Puerperal Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Scabies
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Tuberculosis
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
Typhus Fever
Whooping Cough
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Public Health Act 1936 - Section 144(1) "When an inmate of any building used for
human habitation is suffering from .... every medical practitioner attending on, or
called in to visit, that inmate (in this section referred to as "the patient") shall,
as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is so suffering, send to the medical
officer of health of the district in which the building is situate a certificate in
the form set out in the second schedule to these regulations".
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
(Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations 1951)
Fulham residents 22
Non-Fulham residents 4
Total cases notified in Fulham 26
Fulham residents notified to other Authorities 23
Total number of Fulham cases 45
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS
(The Public Health (Acute Poliomyeli ti s, Acute Encephali tis
and Meningococcal Infection) Regulations,. 1949)
Fulham residents
Paralytic 2
Non-Fulham residents
Non-paralytic 1