Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[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 (Section 192 and 304).
Cholera
Diphtheria
Enteric Fever (including typhoid and paratyphoid).
Erysipelas
Membranous Croup
Relapsing Fever
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever
Small-pox (Variola)
Typhus Fever
B. Under Regulat ions made by the Minister of Health under powers contained
in the Public Health Act, 1936 (Sections 143-146).
Acute Encephalitis (Regulation No.2259. 1949)
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia (Regulation No.299, 1953)
Acute Poliomyelitis (Regulation No.2259, 1949)
Acute Primary Pneumonia (Regulation No.229, 1953)
Dysentery (Regulation No.299, 1953)
Leprosy (Regulation No.1036, 1951) (See (a) below)
Malaria (Regulation No.299, 1953)
Measles (Regulation No.1100, 1938)
Meningococcal Infection (Regulation No.2259, 1949)
Puerperal Pyrexia (Regulation No.1081, 1951 and No.1691, 1954)
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)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum (1910) (See (b) below).
D. Under Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Amendment Regulat ions, 1960
Anthrax
E. Under Food and Drugs Act, 1955 (Section 26)
Food Poisoning
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