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A.—NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Under the Infectious Disease (Notification) Acts, 1889 and 1899, or
by Orders or Regulations under the Public Health Act, 1875, the following
diseases are compulsorily notifiable in the District, viz.: Small.pox, Cholera,
Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas, the disease known as Scarlet
Fever or Scarlatina, and the fevers known by any of the following names:—
Typhus, Typhoid or Enteric, Relapsing, Continued, and Puerperal. Also
Cerebro.Spinal Fever, Acute Poliomyelitis, Tuberculosis, Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Measles and German Measles.
As required by the Measles Order, 1915, Notification Forms were
supplied to all the medical practitioners in the district, and notices drawing
the attention of parents and guardians to their duties under this Act were
posted in public places and also distributed in various suitable ways.
There were 63 cases of infectious disease notified, compared with 51
in 1914. The increase has been in all forms of infectious disease, but
chiefly in pulmonary tuberculosis, with 15 cases compared with 7 in 1914.
Scarlet Fever.—Nineteen civilian cases were notified, compared with
17 in 1914, and all made a good recovery. There was also one military case
notified to me, a soldier whose home was in this district, but this case was
not included in Table II.
The outbreak was chiefly confined to the Chislehurst portion of the
district, and most of the schools appear to have had isolated cases. Five
cases were notified in January and four in October, the remainder being
fairly evenly distributed over the year. One of the April cases was a child
whose sister had returned home from the Isolation Hospital five days
previously, to which she had been admitted on account of scarlet fever.