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Fulham 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Fulham Borough]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Hie following infectious diseases are at present notifiable in Fulham
Acute Ehcephalitis Measles
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia Membianous Croup
Acute Primary Pneumonia Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Anthrax Plague
Cholera Puerperal Pyrexia
Diphtheria Relapsing Fever
Dysentery Scabies
Epidemic Diarrhoea (Under Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
5 years of age) anallpox
Erysipelas Tuberculosis
Pood Poisoning Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
Leprosy Typhus Fever
Malaria Whooping Cbugh
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
| Fulham residents | 17 |
| Non Fulham residents | 6 |
| Total cases notified in FUlham .. | 23 |
| FYilham residents notified to other Authorities | 23 |
| Tbtal number of F\ilham cases | 40 |
ACUTE POLIOMYELITIS
| FXilham residents Paralytic | 2 |
| Non FXilham residents Paralytic | 1 |
Of these three cases which occurred in persons aged 1 14 and 28
years of age, only one had been immunised.