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INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Public Health Act, 1936 - Section 144(1) 'When an initiate 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'.
The following infectious disease are at present notifiable in Fulham:-
Acute Encephalitis
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Acute Primaiy Pneumonia
Acute Poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Epidemic Diarrhoea (Under
5 years of age)
Erysipelas
Food Poisoning
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Membranous Croup
Meningococcal Infection
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Plague
Puerperal Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Scabies
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Tuberculosis
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
Typhus Fever
Whooping Cough
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
(Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1951)
Fulham residents 5
Non-Fulham residents -
Total cases notified in Fulham 5
Fulham residents notified to other Authorities 14
Total number of Fulham cases 19