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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'.
The following infectious diseases are at present notifiable in Fulham:-
Acute Encephalitis
Measles
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Membranous Croup
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Anthrax
Plague
Cholera
Puerperal Pyrexia
Diphtheria
Relapsing Fever
Dysentery
Scabies
Epidemic Diarrhoea (Under
5 years of age)
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Erysipelas
Tuberculosis
Food Poisoning
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers
Leprosy
Typhus Fever
Malaria
Whooping Cough
PUERPERAL PYREXIA
(Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1951)
Fulham residents .. .. .. 5
Non-Fulham residents .. .. .. 2
Total cases notified in Fulham 7
Fulham residents notified to other Authorities 15
Total number of Fulham cases 20