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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1926 under the Notification Clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 5,712 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 1, acute poliomyelitis
6, encephalitis lethargica 4.
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.
Puerperal pyrexia Acute encephalitis lethargica.
Ophthalmia neonatorum. Measles.
Cerebro-spinal fever. Whooping cough.
The distribution of the cases notified in the registration subdistricts
and the wards is shown in the table on p. 41.
Excluding measles and whooping cough, there were 1,640
cases which occurred in 1,382 houses. Of these cases 1,300, or
79.3 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums' Board or to other Institutions and 340, or
20.7 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.
Cases of " Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.
Small-Pox.
No case of small-pox occurred in Battersea during 1926.
During the year 5 cases of this disease were recorded in London,
2 in St. Marylebone and 1 each in Lambeth, St. Pancras and Islington.
In England and Wales, 10,205 cases of small-pox were notified
during 1926.