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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1930 under the Notification Clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 4,883 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 2, acute poliomyelitis
1, enteric fever 3, small-pox 7, encephalitis lethargica, 1,
and polio-encephalitis, 1. In 1929 the total was 2,910, the increase
in 1930 being wholly due to the epidemic of measles (vide page 62.)
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. 56.
Excluding tuberculosis, measles and whooping cough, there were
1,575 cases which occurred in 1,327 houses. Of these cases 1,213, or
77 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
London County Council or to other Institutions and 362, 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 (vide page 130).
Infectious Disease Contacts.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.