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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 Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
5 years 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 3
Total cases notified in Fulham 25
Fulham residents notified to other Authorities 16
Total number of Fulham cases 38
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS
(The Public Health (Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute Encephalitis
and Meningococcal Infection) Regulations, 1949)
Fulham residents
Paralytic 5
Non paralytic 2 7
FOOD POISONING
In January of this year the revised Memorandum of Food Poisoning was received
and in consequence the local medical practitioners were circularised seeking their
co-operation in informing the Public Health Department immediately a case of food
poisoning was suspected