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The following diseases were notifiable in 1930 under the original
Infectious Disease (Notification) Acts, 1889, and 1899:—
Small-pox, diphtheria, relapsing fever, cholera, erysipelas,
typhus, plague, puerperal fever, enteric fever, scarlet fever and
continued fever,
and hy Orders or Regulations framed under Section 180, Public
Health Act, 1875:—
Tuberculosis (all forms), ophthalmia neonatorum, cerebro-spinal
fever, acute poliomyelitis, encephalitis lethargica, influenzal
pneumonia, acute primary pneumonia, malaria, dysentery, trench
fever, and puerperal pyrexia.
An order was made under the Infectious Disease (Notification)
Act, 1889, making chicken-pox a notifiable disease throughout
the district.
The Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1924, provides
for the notification of Pneumonia supervening upon Measles.
The total notifications of infectious diseases numbered 1,004
exclusive of tuberculosis and inclusive of chicken-pox, compared
with 547 the previous year.
During 1930 the number of notifications of tuberculosis (all
forms) was 95 compared with 64 in 1929.