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Acton 1938

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]

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Section VII. - PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, NOTIFIABLE DISEASES.
The undermentioned diseases are compulsorily notifiable in St. Paneras:—
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);
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 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."
E. Under the London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1932, and the
Public Health (London) Act, 1936
Food Poisoning.