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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER,
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
Under the compulsory notification sections of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936, and the orders and regulations made
thereunder 5,959 cases of infectious diseases (excluding tuberculosis)
were reported during the year. This number is more than
the number (1,990) reported in the previous year, a large proportion
being attributable to measles.
Measles has been a compulsorily notifiable disease in Lambeth
since 1916 and although the desirability of making the disease
compulsorily notifiable throughout the metropolis was first
advocated in 1928 and subsequently on many occasions it was not
until the County of London (Measles and Whooping Cough)
Regulations made the disease notifiable in London on the 1st
October, 1938 that the objective was achieved.