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Fluoridation of Water Supplies
Following receipt of Ministry of Health Circular 15/65 the Health Committee
gave consideration to the making of arrangements, through the London Boroughs
Committee, for the addition of fluoride to public water supplies. The Minister of
Health had given approval under Section 28 of the National Health Service Act, 1946,
to the making of such arrangements and expressed the hope that all Local Health
Authorities would take the necessary steps.
The Council, at the meeting in January 1966, had no hesitation in adopting the
recommendation of the Health Committee that fluoridation is a positive and beneficial
health measure and agreed with the London Boroughs Committee that an
approach be made to the Minister for the introduction of legislation enabling the
fluoridation of water supplies to be directed nationally.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Notification of Infectious Diseases
All medical practitioners are required to notify the Medical Officer of Health,
on certificates which are provided free of charge, of any of their patients who, in their
opinion, are suffering from any of the following infectious diseases.
Acute encephalitis Measles
Acute gastro enteritis Ophthalmia neonatorum
Acute meningitis Paratyphoid fever
Acute poliomyelitis Plague
Anthrax Relapsing fever
Cholera Scarlet fever
Diphtheria Small-pox
Dysentery (Amoebic or Bacillary) Tetanus
Food poisoning Tuberculosis
Hydrophobia in man Typhoid fever
Infective Jaundice Typhus
Leprosy Whooping cough
Leptospirosis Yellow fever
Malaria