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The principal changes are :—
(a) All provisions governing the notification of infectious disease
and food poisoning are now to be found in Sections 47 to 49 of the
1968 Act and these Regulations. Responsibility for such notification
rests exclusively on the medical practitioner attending a patient
unless he believes another practitioner has already notified the
case.
(b) Where, pursuant to Section 48(2)(b) or 48(3)(a) of the 1968
Act, a copy of a certificate is sent by the medical officer of health
of one district to the medical officer of health of another district,
the case to which that certificate relates shall be included only in
the returns of the last-mentioned medical officer.
(c) The infectious diseases now to be notified to the Medical
Officer of Health are
Acute encephalitis Ophthalmia neonatorum
Acute meningitis Paratyphoid fever
Acute poliomyelitis Plague
Anthrax Relapsing fever
Cholera Scarlet fever
Diphtheria Smallpox
Dysentery (Amoebic or †(Tetanus
Bacillary) Tuberculosis
Infective Jaundice Typhoid fever
Leprosy Typhus
*Leptospiroris Whooping cough
Malaria †Yellow fever
Measles
* Previously notifiable in certain areas only.
† Notifiable for the first time.
(d) Notification of the following diseases is no longer required :
Acute influenzal Erysipelas
pneumonia Membranous croup
Acute primary Puerperal pyrexia
pneumonia
* Acute rheumatism
* Ceased to be notifiable in this Borough on 1st October, 1965.
(e) "Notifiable disease" is redefined to mean cholera, plague,
relapsing fever, smallpox and typhus. As a consequence the full
application of those provisions of Part V of the Public Health Act,
1936 (including Part III of the Public Health Act, 1961), hitherto
applicable in their entirety to any disease which is a "notifiable
disease" as defined in Section 343(1) of the 1936 Act, is restricted
to these five diseases (to which the International Sanitary