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The following diseases were notifiable in 1929 under the original
Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, and 1899
Small-pox, 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, cercbro-spinal
fever, acute poliomyelitis, encephalitis lethargica, influenzal
pneumonia, acute primary pneumonia, malaria, dysentery, trench
fever, and puerperal pyrexia.
An order was made under the Infectious Disease (Notification)
Act, 1889, making chicken-pox a notifiable disease throughout
the district.
The Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1924, provides
for the notification of Pneumonia supervening upon Measles.
The total notifications of infectious disease numbered 547
exclusive of tuberculosis and chicken pox compared with 483 the
previous year.
During 1929 the number of notifications of tuberculosis (all
forms) was 73 compared with 93 in 1928.