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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1936 under the notification clauses of the Public
Health (London) Acts, 1891 and 1936, and the Orders and Regulations
made thereunder, 3,862 cases of infectious diseases (excluding
tuberculosis) were notified, including cerebro-spinal fever 6, enteric
fever 11, In 1935 the total was 1,982. The increase in the
number of cases notified during 1936 was chiefly due to the epidemic
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-encephalitis, acute.
Dysentery.
Polio-myelitis, 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
1,090 infectious cases notified, which occurred in 947 houses. Of
these cases 871, or 79-9 per cent., were removed to the isolation
hospitals of the London County Council or to other institutions and
219, or 20-1 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 55.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.