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The following information is incorporated in the pamphlet
left with the family in which there has occurred a notifiable
disease :—
Middlesex County Council (General Powers) Act, 1938.
(1) The Headteacher of a School and Sunday School must
be informed forthwith of the occurrence or suspicion of
NOTIFIABLE DISEASE in a household—penalty
twenty shillings.
(2) Patients and other children excluded from school
because of a NOTIFIABLE DISEASE must also be
kept away from any Sunday School, Day School (e.g.
Private School) or Place of Public Entertainment or
Assembly unless a medical certificate be procured stating
that they may attend without undue risk of
communicating disease to others—penalty forty
shillings.
The NOTIFIABLE DISEASES above referred to are as
regards the Borough of Wembley at the present time : -
Smallpox, Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup,
Erysipelas, Disease known as Scarlatina or Scarlet
Fever, and Typhus Fever, Typhoid Fever, Enteric
Fever or Relapsing Fever.
The Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations, 1938, which
came into operation on 1st July, 1938, lay down a certain
routine to be complied with in order further to protect the
public health, with regard especially to the diseases of plague,
cholera, typhus fever and small-pox.
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