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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 Section 55 and 56
of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891.
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 tuberculosis have been made notifiable by the
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912, of the Local
Government Board.
Outbreaks of glanders and anthrax arc 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 1914 were as follows: Small pox none (none), scarlet fever 438
(251), diphthe ria 134 (95), cerebro-spinal fever 3 (5), typhoid fever
15 (15), erysipelas 159 (124), puerperal fever 11 (13), ophthalmia
neonatorum 17 (6), and polio-myelitis 1 (3) cases. The figures in
brackets refer to the year 1913.