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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1929 under the Notification Clauses ot the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 2,910 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 2, acute poliomyelitis
1, enteric fever 1, small-pox 2, encephalitis lethargica, 3.
The following is a list of the diseases compulsorily notifiable
in Battersea :
Small-pox.
Cholera.
Diphtheria.
Membranous croup.
Erysipelas.
Scarlet fever.
Typhus fever
Typhoid or enteric fever.
Relapsing fever.
Continued fever.
Puerperal fever.
Puerperal pyrexia
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
Acute polio-myelitis.
Acute polio-encephalitis.
Glanders.
Anthrax.
Hydrophobia
Acute influenzal pneumonia.
Acute primary pneumonia.
Malaria.
Dysentery.
Plague.
Acute encephalitis lethargica.
Measles.
Whooping cough.
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 1,603
cases which occurred in 1,374 houses. Of these cases 1,168, or
72.9 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board or to other Institutions and 435,
or 27-1 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.