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case. The Finsbury contacts were kept under supervision. Information
of other contacts was sent to the Medical Officers of
Health. No further cases occurred.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
General Considerations.—The notifiable diseases named in
Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, are small
pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, scarlet
fever, typhus, enteric, relapsing, continued and puerperal fevers.
Cerebro-spinal fever, posterior basal meningitis, polio-myelitis,
polio-encephalitis, ophthalmia neonatorum, glanders, anthrax, and
hydrophobia in man are likewise notifiable in London by an order
of the London County Council, made under Sections 55 and 56
of the Public Health (London) Act.
Sections 60-65, 68-70, 72-74 of the same Act, referring to the
cleansing and disinfection of premises and materials, and to
contact with, or exposure of infected persons and things have been
made applicable to measles. Measles and hooping cough are
not notifiable.
All cases of pulmonary tuberculosis have been made notifiable
by the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911, of the
Local Government Board.
Outbreaks of glanders and anthrax are notifiable to the Health
Authority by the Inspectors appointed under the Diseases of
Animals Act, 1894, in pursuance of the provisions of the Anthrax
Order, 1899, and of the Glanders and Farcy Order, 1907, of the
Board of Agriculture.
Cases of anthrax, or poisoning by mercury, arsenic, lead and
phosphorus, must be notified to the Chief Inspector of Factories,
Whitehall.
Notifications.—The notifications of infectious disease received
in 1912 were as follows:—Small pox none (none), scarlet fever
159 (170) diphtheria 133 (159), cerebro spinal fever 1 (2), typhoid