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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1927 under the Notification Clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 2,440 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 6, acute poliomyelitis
7, encephalitis lethargica 4, acute polio-encephalitis 1.
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 Infectious Diseases (London) Regulations, 1927, were
issued by the Ministry of Health in December. The effect of the
regulations was to remove (as from 1st January, 1928) trench
fever from the list of compulsorily notifiable infectious diseases
and to provide that cases of malaria occurring in Institutions
where infection had been induced for therapeutic purposes, should
not be notified, except that at least four days before the discharge
of such a patient from the Institution, the Medical Officer who
had charge of the patient should notify the Medical Officer of
Health of the district in which the patient proposes to reside.
The distribution of the cases notified in the registration subdistricts
and the wards is shown in the table on p. 39.
Excluding measles and whooping cough, there were 1,668
cases which occurred in 1,392 houses. Of these cases 1.328, or
79.5 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board or to other Institutions and 340, or
20.5 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.
* Not notifiable after 31st December, 1927.