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SECTION F
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
The diseases which are notifiable in Islington include those which have since
been added by Order, and the complete list is as follows:—Small Pox, Cholera,
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, the disease known as Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever, the fevers known by any of the following names: Typhus, Typhoid,
Enteric, Relapsing, Continued, or Puerperal, and also the following infectious
diseases: Anthrax, Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute Encephalitis Lethargica, Acute
Polio-Encephalitis, Acute Primary Pneumonia, Acute Influenzal-Pneumonia,
Cerebro-spinal fever or Epidemic Cerebro-spinal Meningitis, Dysentery, Glanders
or Farcy, Hydrophobia or Rabies, Malaria, Measles,* Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Plague, Tuberculosis, Puerperal Pyrexia, Whooping Cough* and Chicken-pox*
(except in the vaccinated under 10 years of age).
*Limited Notification.
The Principal Diseases include:—
Small Pox, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever, Enteric Fever, Typhus, Continued Fever,
Puerperal Fever and Erysipelas.
1,486 cases of the principal diseases which are notifiable under the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936, came to the knowledge of the Medical Officer of Health.
This number does not include other communicable ailments, which are also
notifiable. The complete list of infectious diseases which are notifiable in Islington
is given above.
The total cases notified are 41 less than those of the previous year (1,527),
and 588 below the average (2,074) of the preceding ten years. The decreases when
contrasted with the decennial averages are to be found in the returns from Scarlet
Fever, Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Erysipelas and Puerperal Fever, which were
respectively 331, 167, 6, 2 and 16 below the average.
The 1,486 cases were equal to an attack-rate of 5.08 per 1,000 of the civil
population.
The returns for the preceding ten years are given in the following statements:—
Attack-rates per 1,000
Year. Cases. civil population.
1928 2,260 6.96
1929 2,439 7.62
1930 3,057 9.38
1931 2,111 6.50
1932 1,962 6.04
1933 2,016 6.32
1934 2,227 7.08
1935 1,639 5.32
1936 1,504 4.84
1937 1,527 5.17
Average 2,074 6.62
1938 1,486 5.08