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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1925 under the Notification Clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 2,770 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 1, acute poliomyelitis
2, encephalitis lethargica 8.
The following is a list of the diseases compulsorily notifiable
in Battersea:—
Small-pox. Acute polio-myelitis.
Cholera. Acute polio-encephalitis.
Diphtheria. Glanders.
Membranous croup. Anthrax.
Erysipelas. Hydrophobia.
Scarlet fever. Acute influenzal pneumonia.
Typhus fever Acute primary pneumonia.
Typhoid or enteric fever. Trench fever.
Relapsing fever. Malaria.
Continued fever. Dysentery.
Puerperal fever. Plague.
Ophthalmia neonatorum. Acute encephalitis lethargica.
Cerebro-spinal fever. Measles.
Whooping cough.
The distribution of the cases notified in the registration subdistricts
and the wards is shown in the table on p. 43.
Excluding measles and whooping cough, there were 1,300
cases which occurred in 1,116 houses. Of these cases 1,002, or
77.1 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board and 298, or 22.9 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. Enteric fever.
Plague. Malaria.
Diphtheria. Scarlet fever.
Small-pox.
No case of small-pox was notified in Battersea during 1925,
and'only 1 case (fatal haemorrhagic small-pox, notified in September,
1923) occurred in the Borough during the past 5 years.
During the year 13 cases were recorded in London, 11 in Bethnal
Green and 2 in Lambeth. In addition, 4 cases were notified to the
Port of London Authority.
In England and Wales 5,341 cases of small-pox were notified
during 1925.