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The following diseases were notifiable in 1932 under the original Infectious
Disease (Notification) Acts, 1889 and 1899 :—
Smallpox, diphtheria, relapsing fever, cholera, erysipelas, typhus,
plague, puerperal fever, cnteric 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, 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 diseases numbered 971 exclusive of
tuberculosis and inclusive of chicken-pox, compared with 905 the previous year.
During 1932 the number of notifications and transfers of tuberculosis (all forms)
was 169 compared with 123 in 1931.