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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following diseases are notifiable :—
Acute Encephalitis
Malaria
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Measles
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Membranous Croup
Acute Poliomyelitis
Meningococcal Infection
Anthrax
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Cholera
Plague
Continued Fever
Puerperal Pyrexia
Diphtheria
Relapsing Fever
Dysentery
*Scabies
Enteric Fever (includes Typhoid
and Paratyphoid)
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Erysipelas
Small-pox
Food Poisoning
Tuberculosis
Glanders
Typhus Fever
Hydrophobia in Man
Whooping Cough
Leprosy (to be notified to Chief
Medical Officer, Ministry of
Health)
*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.
FOOD POISONING
Only one case of food poisoning was notified to me during the
year under The Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Section 17.
INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATES OF VACCINATION
AND INOCULATION
At the request of the Ministry of Health and in order to comply
with the International Sanitary Regulations 61 certificates were dealt
with during the year.