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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
St Pancras 1950
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION 3.
Prevalence of, and Control over,
Notifiable Diseases.
The undermentioned diseases are compulsorily notifiable in St. Pancras:—
A. Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Section 304)
Cholera.
Continued Fever.
Diphtheria.
Enteric Fever (including typhoid and paratyphoid).
Erysipelas.
Membranous Croup.
Relapsing Fever.
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever.
Smallpox (Variola).
Typhus Fever.
B. Under Regulations made by the Minister of Health under powers contained in the
Public Health Acts—
Acute Encephalitis (Regulation No. 2259, 1949).
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia (Regulation No. 1207, 1927).
Acute Poliomyelitis (Regulation No. 2259, 1949).
Acute Primary Pneumonia (Regulation No. 1207, 1927).
Dysentery (Regulation No. 1207, 1927).
Malaria (Regulation No. 1207, 1927).
Measles (Regulations No. 1100, 1938 and No. 205, 1940).
Meningococcal Infection (Regulation No. 2259, 1949).
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (Regulations No. 971, 1926 ; No. 419, 1928 ; No. 35,
1937).
Whooping Cough (Regulations No. 1100, 1938, and No. 205, 1940).
C. Under London County Council Order— Public Health (London) Acts—
Anthrax (1909).
Glanders (1909).
Hydrophobia (1909).
D. Under Food and Drugs Act, 1938 (Section 17) (as amended by National Health
Service Act, 1946, Tenth Schedule)—
Food Poisoning.