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St Pancras 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Section VII. —PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
The undermentioned diseases are compulsorily notifiable in St. Pancras:—
A. Under the Public Health (London) Acts, 1891 and 1936
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)
Cerebro-spinal 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);
Measles and Whooping Cough (1938).
and the Infectious Diseases (London) Regulations, 1937, 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 Order of the London County Council in 1909
Glanders Anthrax
Hydrophobia "when these occur in man."
D. Under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932, and the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936
Food Poisoning.