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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1935 under the notification clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 1,982 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 3, enteric
fever 15. In 1934 the total was 5,146. The decrease in the
number of cases notified during 1935 was chiefly due to the quiescence
of measles.
The following is a list of the diseases compulsorily notifiable
in Battersea:—
Anthrax. Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Cerebro-spinal fever. Plague.
Cholera. Pneumonia, acute influenzal.
Continued fever. „ acute primary.
Diphtheria. Polio-myelitis, acute.
Dysentery. Polio-encephalitis, acute.
Encephalitis lethargica, acute. Puerperal fever.
Enteric (typhoid) fever. „ pyrexia.
Erysipelas. Relapsing fever.
Glanders. Scarlet fever.
Hydrophobia. Small pox.
Malaria. Tuberculosis.
Measles. Typhus fever.
Membranous croup. Whooping cough.
Excluding tuberculosis, measles and whooping cough, there were
1,204 infectious cases notified, which occurred in 1,000 houses. Of
these cases 1,007, or 83.6 per cent., were removed to the isolation
hospitals of the London County Council or to other institutions and
197, or 16.4 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 on the next
page, and the distribution of the cases notified in the registration
sub-districts and the wards is shown in the table on page 48.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.