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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1928 under the Notification Clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 5,873 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 4, acute poliomyelitis
1, enteric fever 8.
The following is a list of the diseases compulsorily notifiable
in Battersea:—
Small-pox. Acute polio-myelitis.
Cholera. Acute polio-encephalitis.
Diphtheria. Glanders.
Membranous croup. Anthrax.
Erysipelas. Hydrophobia
Scarlet fever. Acute influenzal pneumonia.
Typhus fever Acute primary pneumonia.
Typhoid or enteric fever. Malaria.
Relapsing fever. Dysentery.
Continued fever. Plague.
Puerperal fever. Acute encephalitis lethargica.
Puerperal pyrexia Measles.
Ophthalmia neonatorum. Whooping cough.
Cerebro-spinal fever. Tuberculosis.
The distribution of the cases notified in the registration subdistricts
and the wards is shown in the table on p. 41.
Excluding measles and whooping cough, there were 1,682
cases which occurred in 1,427 houses. Of these cases 1,295, or
77 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the Metropolitan
Asylums Board or to other Institutions and 387, or 23
per cent., remained under treatment at home.
Full particulars of all notifiable infectious diseases will be
found in the form required by the Ministry of Health (Table II.)
in the Appendix.
Infectious Disease Contacts.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.