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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Notification of Infectious Diseases
Every medical practitioner attending on, or called in to visit a patient, shall,
as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is suffering from a notifiable
infectious disease, send to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in which
the disease occurs a certificate stating the name and address of the patient and
the disease from which the patient is suffering.
Books of certificates are available free of charge.
The following diseases are notifiable:—
Acute Encephalitis
Acute Gastro Enteritis
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute Poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Continued Fever
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Enteric Fever (includes Typhoid
and Paratyphoid)
Erysipelas
Food Poisoning
Glanders
Hydrophobia in Man
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Membranous Croup
Meningococcal Infection
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Plague
Puerperal Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Small-pox
Tuberculosis
Typhus Fever
Whooping Cough
Typhoid Fever
A child aged 2½ years resident in the Borough was admitted to hospital in
Lewisham suffering from Gastro Enteritis and subsequently diagnosed as suffering
from Typhoid Fever.
Specimens for bacteriological examination were obtained from all persons
resident at the patient's home and two persons engaged in the catering trade were
requested to discontinue their employment under the provisions of Section 41 of
the Public Health Act, 1961.
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