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M.O.H. of the admission as soon as conveniently possible). For
Ophthalmia Neonatorum— mother and infant may be admitted
to St. Margaret's L.C.C. Hospital, address, Leighton Road,
N.W.5. Telephone: Gulliver 2483. (Please inform M.O.H. of
the admission as soon as conveniently possible). For
Tuberculosis— Middlesex County Council service—communicate
with Tuberculosis Officer, Pound Lane, Willesden, N.W.10. Telephone:
Willesden 6254. For Small-Pox— see under Small Pox.
Other Infectious Diseases admitted according to available
accommodation to Acton and Wembley Joint Isolation Hospital,
address, Wales Farm Road, Acton. Telephone : Acorn 4231 or
apply Public Health Department.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES— Notifiable to M.O.H. "on becoming
aware"—Small-pox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous
Croup, Erysipelas, Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Typhoid,
Enteric or Relapsing Fever, Plague, Cerebrospinal Fever, Acute
Poliomyelitis, Acute Encephalitis Lethargica, Acute Polioencephalitis,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal Pyrexia, Malaria,
Dysentery (including amoebic and bacillary) Acute Primary
Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia, Tuberculosis all
forms. N.B. Ophthalmia Neonatorum means "a purulent discharge
from the eyes of an infant, commencing within 21 days
of the date of its birth." Puerperal Pyrexia means "any febrile
condition occurring in a woman within 21 days after child-birth
or miscarriage, in which a temperature of 100.4 degrees F. or
more has been sustained during a period of 24 hours or has
recurred during that period." Since Public Health Act, 1936,
Puerperal Pyrexia includes cases clinically recognised as
Puerperal Fever. Re. Small-Pox see under Small-Pox. For any
further information re infectious diseases apply Public Health
Department. M.O.H. has authority to call consultant neurologist
to aid in diagnosis of epidemic nervous disease (e.g. Cerebrospinal
Fever, Acute Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica). See
also under Disinfection, Hospitals and Laboratory Services. For
Books of forms of notification (special book for Puerperal
Pyrexia) apply Public Health Department.
LABORATORY SERVICES— Swabs for Diphtheria, Streptococci,
Vincent's Angina, Sputum for Tubercle, blood for
agglutination (e.g. Typhoid Group, Bacillus Abortus) faeces and
urine (e.g. Typhoid, Dysentery, etc.) examination for meningococcus,
films for Ophthalmia— service provided at Clinical
Research Laboratories, address, Watergate House, York Buildings,
W.C.2. Telephone: Temple Bar 8993. Re Puerperal
Pyrexia— special service arranged for examination of swabs
(e.g. from nose, throat, vagina and cervix) from patient or from
contacts, for haemolytic streptococci and grouping of the
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