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VI.—PREVALENCE OF AND CONTROL OVER
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES GENERALLY.
DISEASES COMPULSORILY NOTIFIABLE IN THE
BOROUGH.
Acute Poliomyelitis. Membranous Croup.
Acute Polio-encephalitis. Dysentery.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica. Erysipelas.
Acute Primary Pneumonia. Malaria.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia. Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Cerebro-spinal Fever. Pyrexia.
Plague. Relapsing Fever.
Anthrax. Small-pox.
Glanders. Typhus Fever.
Hydrophobia. Tuberculosis.
Cholera. Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Continued Fever. Typhoid or Enteric Fever.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum. Food Poisoning.
Diphtheria.
Table IV shows the total number of cases of infectious diseases
(excluding Tuberculosis) notified during the year, the distribution
by age-groups and the number of cases admitted to hospitals.
Notifications.—The total number of cases of infectious
diseases, excluding Tuberculosis, notified during the year was 331,
as compared with 407 for the year 1933.
Chicken Pox.—Chicken pox, which was made a notifiable
disease in the borough from 1st February, 1930, was removed from
the list of notifiable infectious diseases in July, 1932, as there did not
appear to be justification for extending the period of notification of
this disease in view of the decreased prevalence of Small-pox in the
Metropolis.