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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1934 under the notification clauses of the Public
Health(London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 5,146 cases of infectious diseases(excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 2, enteric
fever 1, small-pox 1. In 1933 the total was 2,774. The increase
in the number of cases notified during 1934 was chiefly due to the
prevalence of measles.
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.
Excluding tuberculosis, measles and whooping cough, there were
1,647 cases which occurred in 1,407 houses. Of these cases 1,400, or
85.0 per cent., were removed to the isolation hospitals of the
London County Council or to other institutions and 247, or 15.0
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 in the Appendix
(vide page 109), and the distribution of the cases notified in the
registration sub-districts and the wards is shown in the table on the
next page.
Infectious Disease Contacts.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.