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INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Every medical practitioner attending on, or called in to visit a
patient, shall, as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is suffering
from a notifiable infectious disease, send to the Medical Officer of
Health of the district in which the disease occurs a certificate stating
the name and address of the patient and the disease from which the
patient is suffering.
Books of certificates are available free of charge from this
Department.
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
Seven cases of food poisoning were notified to me during the
year under The Food and Drugs Act, 1938, Section 17.