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PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS AND
OTHER DISEASES.
The following diseases are compulsorily notifiable in Camberwell:-
Anthrax.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis.
Paratyphoid.
Cholera.
Plague.
Pneumonia, acute influenzal.
Continued Fever.
Diphtheria.
Pneumonia, acute primary.
Polio-Encephalitis, acute.
Dysentery.
Encephalitis Lethargiea, acute.
Polio-Myelitis, acute.
Enteric Fever.
Puerperal Fever and Pyrexia.
Erysipelas.
Scarlatina.
Food Poisoning.
Scarlet Fever.
Glanders.
Smallpox.
Hydrophobia.
Tuberculosis, all forms.
Malaria.
Typhoid Fever.
Measles.
Typhus Fever.
Membranous Croup.
Whooping Cough.
During the year the number of notifications of notifiable
infectious diseases received (excluding tuberculosis) was 1,426 as
compared with 1,106 in the previous year. This increase in the
number of cases is accounted for by reason of specified cases of
whooping cough and measles being made compulsorily notifiable
in London as from October Ist, 1938, and the higher incidence of
diphtheria, scarlet fever and erysipelas.
The number of deaths in 1938 of notified and non-notified cases
of infectious diseases, excluding tuberculosis, was 49, representing
1.8 per cent. of the total deaths reported.
Hospital Accommodation for Infectious Disease.
The restrictions placed on the admission of certain cases of
infectious disease to London County Council hospitals in December,
1937, were removed in May, 1938, thus enabling cases of scarlet
fever, measles and dysentery to be admitted to hospital on the
direct application of a general medical practitioner. In the case of
such diseases as whooping cough, german measles, mumps and
chicken pox hospital treatment can only be secured on the recommendation
of the Medical Officer of Health, after consideration of
the circumstances of the home conditions, or where the severity
of the illness justified consideration for the removal of the patient.
All medical practitioners in the Borough were informed of this
change in the procedure relating to hospital admissions.