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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Chelsea 1962
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1962
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NOTIFIABLE DISEASES
The undermentioned diseases are notifiable to the Medical
Officer of Health by general practitioners:-
Anthrax Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Cholera Plague
Continued Fever Pneumonia, Acute
Influenzal
Diphtheria Pneumonia, Acute
Primary
Dysentery Poliomyelitis, Acute
Encephalitis, Acute Puerperal Pyrexia
Enteric (Typhoid or Relapsing Fever
Paratyphoid) Fever
Erysipelas Scabies
Food Poisoning (or Scarlatina or
Suspected Food Scarlet Fever
Poisoning)
* Leprosy Smallpox
Malaria Tuberculosis
Measles Typhus Fever
Membranous Group Whooping Cough
Meningococcal
Infection
* To be notified to:
Chief Medical Officer,
Ministry of Health.