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Tower Hamlets 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]
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TABLE 4 DISEASES NOTIFIABLE IN THE BOROUGH
| Disease | Authority for Notification and Regulations |
| Acute Encephalitis | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S.I. 1949/2259 |
| Acute Poliomyelitis | -do- |
| Acute Influenzal Pneumonia | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S.I. 1953/299 |
| Acute Primary Pneumonia | -do- |
| Anthrax | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. I. 1960/1989 |
| Cholera | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 144) |
| Diphtheria | -do- |
| Dysentery | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. I. 1953/299 |
| Enteric Fever (including | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 144); S.I. 1953/299 |
| Typhoid and Paratyphoid) | |
| Erysipelas | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 144) |
| Food Poisoning | Food and Drugs Act, 1955 (Section 26) |
| Leprosy * | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. I. 1951/1036 |
| Malaria | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S.I. 1953/299 |
| Measles | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. R. O. 1938/11000, |
| 1940/205; S.I. 1948/420 | |
| Membranous Croup | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 144) |
| Meningococcal Infection | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. I. 1949/2259 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. R. O. 1926/971, 1928/419, 1937/35. |
| Plague | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); Regulations of Local Government Board, 1900. |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S.I. 1951/1081, 1954/1691 |
| Relapsing Fever | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 144). |
| Scabies | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. R. O. 1943/1016 |
| Scarlet Fever | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 144) |
| (Scarlatina) | |
| Smallpox | -do- |
| Tuberculosis | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S.I. 1962/704 |
| Typhus Fever | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 144) |
| Whooping Cough | Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143); S. R. O. 1938/1100, |
| 1940/205; S.I. 1948/420 |
* By virtue of Statutory Instrument 1966/No. 12, which revokes S. I. 1951/1036,
Leprosy is notifiable to the Borough Medical Officer of Health, instead of the
Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health, as from 1st March, 1966.