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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Southwark 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Southwark, Borough of]
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The requirements relating to the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of
certain diseases were contained in the provisions of Section 144 of the Public Health Act
1936 and Regulations made thereunder. As from 1st October, 1968 the provisions
regarding the notification of infectious diseases and food poisoning are contained in
Sections 47 to 49 of the Health Services and Public Health Act, 1968 and the Public
Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1968, and in addition to food poisoning the
following infectious diseases are required to be notified to the Medical Officer of Health: —
Acute encephalitis
Acute meningitis
Acute poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Diphtheria
Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary)
Infective Jaundice
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Measles
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Paratyphoid fever
Plague
Relapsing fever
Scarlet fever
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhus
Whooping cough
Yellow fever
Notification of the following diseases is no longer required:—
Acute influenzal pneumonia
Acute primary pneumonia
Acute rheumatism (previously
notifiable in certain areas)
Erysipelas
Membranous croup
Puerperal pyrexia
As from the above date the notification fee payable to medical practitioners was
increased to 5/—.
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