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Notifiable Infectious Diseases.
During 1938 under the notification clauses of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936, and the Orders and Regulations made
thereunder, 3,356 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were notified. In 1937 the total was 2,083. The increase in the
number of cases notified during 1938 was chiefly due to the biennial
outbreak of measles.
The following is an alphabetical list of the diseases compulsorily
notifiable in Battersea:—
Anthrax.
Cerebro-spinal fever.
(meningococcal meningitis)
Cholera.
Continued fever.
Diphtheria.
Dysentery.
Encephalitis lethargica, acute.
Enteric (typhoid) fever.
Erysipelas.
Glanders.
Hydrophobia.
Malaria.
Measles.
Membranous croup.
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Plague.
Pneumonia, acute influenzal.
„ acute primary.
Polio-encephalitis, acute.
Polio-myelitis, acute.
Puerperal fever.
„ pyrexia.
Relapsing fever.
Scarlet fever.
Small pox.
Tuberculosis.
Typhus fever.
Whooping cough.
Excluding tuberculosis, measles and whooping cough, there were
843 infectious cases notified, which occurred in 748 houses. Of
these cases 700, or 83.0 per cent., were removed to the isolation
hospitals of the London County Council or to other institutions and
143, or 17.0 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 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 57.
Cases of "Contacts" which were reported to the Medical
Officer of Health were kept under observation in connection with
various diseases.