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Barking 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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and by Orders or regulations framed under Section 180, Public
Health Act, 1875 :—
Tuberculosis (all forms), ophthalmia neonatorum, cerebrospinal
fever, acutc polio-myelitis, encephalitis letharyica,
influenzal pneumonia, malaria, dysentery, trench fever, and
acute primary pneumonia.
The Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1924, provides
for the notification of Pneumonia supervening upon Measles.
The total notifications of infectious disease numbered 179,
exclusive of tuberculosis, compared with 190 the previous year.
During 1923 the number of notifications of tuberculosis (all
forms) was 81, while in 1921 the number was 97.