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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Bermondsey 1950
Report on the sanitary condition of the Borough of Bermondsey for the year 1950
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| Disease. | Authority for Notification. |
|---|---|
| Meningococcal Infection | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143) Regulation (No. 2259) made by the Minister of Health, 1949 (1.1.50) |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | L.C.C. Order—Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 305). |
| Plague | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143). Regulations of Local Government Board, 1900. |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | Public Health (London) Act, 1936, as amended by the L.C.C. (General Powers) Act, 1948. |
| Relapsing Fever | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 304). |
| *Scabies | County of London (Scabies) Regulations, 1943. |
| Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 304). |
| Small-pox | do. |
| Tuberculosis | Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930. |
| Typhus Fever | Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 304). |
| Whooping Cough | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143). Regulations made by the Minister of Health, 1938 and 1940. |
*A notification is not required where to the knowledge of the medical
practitioner, a case of scabies has occurred in the house and has been notified
within the four weeks immediately preceding the date on which he first became
aware of the disease in the case he is attending.
There was nothing during the year in connection with infectious
diseases that calls for special comment. There was a marked rise in
the number of cases of Whooping Cough and a considerable drop in
the number of cases of Measles, and I am happy to report that there
were no deaths caused by these two diseases or by Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria or Acute Poliomyelitis.