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Notification of Infectious Disease.—The list of compulsory
notifiable diseases in Hornsey during 1913 was as follows, viz.:
Scarlet Fever
Diphtheria
Enteric Fever
Puerperal Fever
Erysipelas
Small Pox
Cholera
Plague
Acute Poliomyelitis
Cerebro-Spinal Fever
Infectious Disease (Notification)
Acts, 1889 and 1899.
Tuberculosis
(all forms)
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912.
For convenience of comparison with preceding years, the following
table has been divided so as to show first the total notifications
in the case of the older notifiable diseases, and then the more
recent additions to the list.
Considering the older notifiable diseases first (Scarlet Fever,
Diphtheria, Enteric Fever, Puerperal Fever, Erysipelas and Small
Pox), we see that the cases notified to me numbered 359 in 1913.
This is an increase of 82 as compared with 1912, when 277 cases
were notified.
The yearly average number of notifications of these diseases
for the last 20 years is 458, the number of notifications for 1913
being, therefore, 99 below the yearly average.
There were no cases of Cerebro-Spinal Fever or Acute Poliomyelitis
notified during 1913. The notifications of Tubercular
Phthisis numbered 176, and of other forms of Tuberculosis 70, and
have already been referred to.