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Wholesale Dealers in Margarine.—One certificate of registration under the provisions
of the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts was issued during the year.
Section VI.—PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The undermentioned diseases are compulsory notifiable in St. Pancras:—
A, Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891
Small-pox (Variola) Typhus Fever
Cholera Typhoid „
Diphtheria and Membranous Croup Enteric „
Erysipelas Relapsing ,,
Scarlet Fever (Scarlatina) Continued „
Puerperal „
B. Under Special Regulations made by the Ministry of Health granted
under powers contained in the Public Health Acts:—
Plague (1900)
Cerebrospinal Fever and Acute Poliomyelitis (1912)
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica and Acute Polio-encephalitis (1919)
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia (1926, 1928)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (1926, 1928)
Tuberculosis (1930);
and the Infectious Diseases (London) Regulations, 1927, for
Malaria Dysentery
Acute Primary Pneumonia Acute Influenzal Pneumonia ;
and wherein Enteric Fever is defined to include the
Paratyphoid group of Fevers
C. Under a Special Local Order of the Ministry of Health in 1920
Measles German Measles
D. Under a Special Order of the London County Council in 1909
Glanders Anthrax
Hydrophobia " when these occur in man."
As compared with the previous year there was an increase in the number of cases of
Diphtheria and a decrease in the number of cases of Scarlet Fever, Puerperal Fever,
Puerperal Pyrexia, Enteric Fever and Pneumonia ; other notifiable diseases shewed no undue
prevalence, with the exception of Small-pox, an outbreak of which continued during the early
part of the year, and Measles, an epidemic of which occurred during the first two quarters of
the year.