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Battersea 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Battersea Borough]
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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1931 under the Notification Clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 1,819 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including Cerebro-spinal fever 3, acute poliomyelitis
3, enteric fever 4, small-pox 3. In 1930 the total was
4,883.
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. 47.
Excluding tuberculosis, measles and whooping cough, there were
1,251 cases which occurred in 1,090 houses. Of these cases 992, or
79.3 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
London County Council or to other Institutions and 259, or 20-7
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 122).
Infectious Disease Contacts.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.