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Barking 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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The average annual death rate of notifiable infectious disease
per 1,000 population during the quinquennium ending December
31st, 1925 was 0.88.
The following diseases were notifiable in 1925 under the
original Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889 and 1899:-
Smallpox, diphtheria, relapsing fever, cholra, erysipelas,
typhus, plague, puerperal fever, enteric fever Strict fever
and continued fever,
and by Orders or Regulations framed under Section 180, Public
Health Act, 1875 :—
Tuberculosis (all forms), ophthalmia neonatorum, cerebrospinal
fever, acute polio-myelitis, encephalitis lethargic.
influenzal pneumonia, acute primary pneumonia, malaria,
dysentery, trench fever.
The Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1924. provides
for the notification of Pneumonia supervening upon Measles.
The total notifications of infectious disease numbered 230
exclusive of tuberculosis, compared with 179 the previous year.
During 1025 the number of notifications of Tuberculosis (all
forms) was 80 compared with 97 in 1924.