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The following diseases were notifiable in 1931 under the original Infectious
Disease (Notification) Acts, 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, cerebro-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, 1880, making
chicken-pox a notifiable disease throughout the district.
The Barking Town (Pneumonia) Regulations, 1921, provides for the notification
of Pneumonia supervening upon Measles.
The total notifications of infectious diseases numbered 905 exclusive of
tuberculosis and inclusive of chicken-pox, compared with 1,004 the previous year.
During 1931 the number of notifications of tuberculosis (all forms) was 123
compared with 95 in 1930.