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The following diseases were notifiable in 1928 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), ophthalmia neonatorum, cerebro-spinal
fever, acute poliomyelitis, 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 483.
exclusive of tuberculosis compared with 461 the previous year.
During 1928 the number of notifications of tuberculosis (all
forms) was 93 compared with 108 in 1927.