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PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Notifiable Diseases.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Camberwell:—
Membranous Croup.
Acute Polio-encephalitis.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Plague.
Anthrax.
Pneumonia —acute Primary.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.
Pneumonia —Acute Influenzal.
Cholera.
Puerperal Fever.
Continued Fever.
Diphtheria.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Relapsing Fever.
Dysentery.
Scarlet Fever or Scarlatina.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
Smallpox.
Erysipelas.
Tuberculosis.
Food Poisoning.
Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Glanders.
Typhus Fever.
Hydrophobia.
Malaria.
During the year 1935 the number of notifications of infectious
diseases (excluding tuberculosis) received was 1,317 as compared
with 1,892 for the year 1934. It is satisfactory to note that a
reduction of 30 per cent. took place in the number of cases of
infectious diseases notified during the year, scarlet fever showing
the largest decrease. This disease has been noticeably less severe
for many years past, and continues to be benign in character.
There has been a gratifying fall in the number of cases of diphtheria
with the deaths remaining at the same figure as last year,
viz., 20. ,
The notifications received of enteric fever (typhoid and paratyphoid)
were more, viz., 8 as compared with the number reported
in 1934 when there was only one case notified. Of the notifiable
nervous diseases, the number notified was again small and there
were no cases of encephalitis lethargica reported.
Smallpox.
No case of this disease was notified during the year, nor were
any vaccinations performed by the Medical Officer of Health under
the Public Health Smallpox Prevention Regulations, 1917.
Post-Vaccinal Encephalitis.
No case of post-vaccinal encephalitis came to the notice of the
Medical Officer of Health during the year.