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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES.
Under the compulsory notification Section of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1936, and the Orders and Regulations made thereunder,
and the Tuberculosis Regulations 1930, 2,963 cases of
Infectious Diseases were reported during the year. The following
table shows the comparison since 1933.
No. Year.
3,267 1933
3,226 1934
1,191 1935
3,587 1936
1,635 1937
2,963 1938
Particulars relating to age groups and districts are shewn in
the tables at the end of the Report.
Smallpox.—There were no cases reported during the year,
but as a result of cases reported in another district some contacts
were kept under observation for the requisite period.
Public Health (Smallpox Prevention), Regulations,
1917.—It was not found necessary for your Medical Officer of
Health to undertake any vaccinations during the year.
Details respecting vaccination in the Borough are given in
the Supplementary Vaccination Report on page 102.
Measles and Whooping Cough.—Although both these
diseases have been notifiable in Greenwich for many years, it has
been considered necessary to make these diseases compulsorily
notifiable throughout the County of London, and accordingly the
local Regulations and Order were revoked when the new Regulations
came into force, viz: 1st October, 1938.
Measles.—The usual biennial epidemic of Measles was
responsible for 1930 notifications, 67 of which were returned as
German Measles. In the year 1936 there were 2,071 notifications.