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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
The following infectious diseases are at present notifiable in Fulham:-
Acute Encephalitis Malaria
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia Measles
Acute Primary Pneumonia Membranous Croup
Acute Poliomyelitis Meningococcal Infection
Anthrax Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Cholera Plague
Continued Fever Puerperal Pyrexia
Diphtheria Relapsing Fever
Dysentery - Scabies
Epidemic Diarrhoea (Under 5 years Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
of age) Smallpox
Erysipelas Tuberculosis
Food Poisoning Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
Glanders Typhus Fever
Hydrophobia in Man Whooping Cough
Leprosy
NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Public Health Act, 1936 - Section 144(1) "When an inmate of any building used for
human habitation is suffering from .... every medical practitioner attending on, or
called in to visit, that inmate (in this section referred to as "the patient") shall
as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is so suffering, send to the medical
officer of health of the district in which the building is situate a certificate in the
form set out in the second schedule to these regulations".
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
(Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1951)
Fulham residents 22
Non-Fulham residents 1
Total cases notified in Fulham 23
Fulham residents notified to other Authorities 12
Total number of Fulham cases 34
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS
(The Public Health (Acute Poliomyelitis Acute Encephal itis
and Meningococcal Infection) Regulations. 1949)
Fulham residents
Paralytic 5
Non-paralytic 1 6
Food Poisoning
Eighteen cases were notified. Routine investigations were carried out in sixteen
cases and in six cases Salmonella Typhi-murium was isolated from specimens submitted
for bacteriological examination.
In the remaining two cases onset occurred in hospital and were also due to
Salmonella Typhi-murium.