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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1933 under the notification clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 2,774 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 4, enteric
fever 3, small-pox 4. In 1932 the total was 4,641. The decrease
in the number of cases notified during 1933 was chiefly due to the
quiescence of measles, which compensated for considerable increases
in the number of cases of both diphtheria and scarlet fever.
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
1,742 cases which occurred in 1,479 houses. Of these cases 1,529, or
87.8 per cent., were removed to the Isolation Hospitals of the
London County Council or to other Institutions and 213, or 12.2
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 124).
Infectious Disease Contacts.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.