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St Pancras 1952
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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SECTION 3.
Notifiable Diseases.
The undermentioned diseases are compulsorily notifiable in St. Pancras
A. Under the Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Sections 192 and 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 ihc
Public Health Act, 1936 (Section 143).
Acute Encephalitis (Regulation No. 2259, 1949).
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia (Regulation No. 1207, 1928).
Acute Poliomyelitis (Regulation No. 2259, 1949).
Acute Primary Pneumonia (Regulation No. 1207, 1928).
Dysentery (Regulation No. 1207, 1928).
Leprosy (Regulation No. 1036, 1951). (See (a) below.)
Malaria (Regulation No. 1207, 1928).
Measles (Regulation No. 1100, 1938).
Meningococcal Infection (Regulation No. 2259, 1949).
Puerperal Pyrexia (Regulation No. 1081, 1951).
Scabies (Regulation No. 1016, 1943). (See (c) below.)
Tuberculosis (Regulation No. 704, 1952).
Whooping Cough (Regulation No. 1100,1938).
C. Under London County Council Order—Public Health (London) Act, 1936 (Sections
192 and 305).
Anthrax (1909).
Glanders (1909).
Hydrophobia (1909).
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (1910). (See (b) below.)