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The following diseases were notifiable in 1326 under the original
Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, and 1899 :—
Smallpox, diphtheria, relapsing fever, cholera, erysipelas,
typhus, plague, puerperal fever, enteric fever, scarlet fever and
continued fever.
and by Orders or Regulations framed under Section 180, Public
Health Act, 1875
Tuberculosis (all forms), opthalmia neonatorum, cerebrospinal
fever, acute polio-myelitis, encephalitis lethargica, influenzal
pneumonia, acute primary pneumonia, malaria, dysentery, trench
fever, and puerperal pyrexia.
The Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1924, provides
for the notification of Pneumonia supervening upon Measles.
The total notifications of infectious disease numbered 328,
exclusive of tuberculosis, compared with 230 the previous year.
During 1926 the number of notifications of tuberculosis (all
forms) was 133 compared with 80 in 1925.