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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1924, under the Notification Clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 3,821 cases of infectious diseases (excluding Tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 4, acute poliomyelitis
9, encephalitis lethargica 12.
The following is a list of the diseases compulsorily notifiable
in Battersea
Smallpox.
Cholera.
Diphtheria.
Membranous croup.
Erysipelas.
Scarlet fever.
Typhus fever.
Typhoid or Enteric fever.
Relapsing fever.
Continued fever.
Puerperal fever.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
Acute polio-myelitis.
Acute polio-encephalitis.
Glanders.
Anthrax.
Hydrophobia.
Acute Influenzal pneumonia.
Acute primary pneumonia.
Trench fever.
Malaria.
Dysentery.
Plague.
Acute encephalitis lethargica.
Measles.
Whooping cough.
The distribution of the cases notified in the sub-districts and
the nine wards is shown in the table on page 38.
Excluding the cases of measles and whooping cough, there were
1,417 cases which occurred in 1,219 houses. Of these cases 926
(i.e., 65.3 per cent.) were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board and 491 (i.e., 34.7 per cent.) remained
under treatment at home.
Full particulars of all notifiable infectious diseases will be found
in the form required by the Ministry of Health (Table II.) in the
Appendix.
Infectious Disease Contacts.
Many cases of "contacts," which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases as follows:—
Small-pox.
Plague.
Diphtheria.
Enteric fever.
Malaria.
Scarlet fever.
Small-pox.
No case of small-pox was notified in Battersea in 1924. During
the year 4 cases occurred in London, a single case having been notified
in each of the Metropolitan Boroughs of Chelsea, Kensington,
St. Pancras and the City of Westminster.