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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 Gastro Enteritis
Measles
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Membranous Croup
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Anthrax
Plague
Cholera
Puerperal Pyrexia
Continued Fever
Relapsing Fever
Diphtheria
*Scabies
Dysentery
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Enteric Fever (includes Typhoid
and Paratyphoid)
Small-pox
Erysipelas
Tuberculosis
Food Poisoning
Typhus Fever
Glanders
Whooping Cough
Hydrophobia in Man
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
Forty-three cases of food poisoning were notified to me during
the year under The Food and Drugs Act, 1955, Section 26.