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infectious diseases- notifiable to medical
OFFICER OF HEALTH "on becoming aware" - Small-pox,
Cholera, Diphtheria, Membranous Croup, Erysipelas,
Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever, Typhus, Typhoid,
Enteric or Relapsing Fever, Plague, Cerebro-spinal
Fever, Acute Poliomyelitis, Acute Encephalitis
Lethargica, Acute Polio-Encephalitis, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Puerperal Pyrexia, Malaria, Dysentery
(including amoebic and bacillary) Acute Primary
Pneumonia and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia,
Tuberculosis all forms, Measles and Whooping Cough.
Medical Officer of Health has authority to call
consultant neurologist to aid in diagnosis of
epidemic nervous disease (e.g. Cerebro-spinal
Fever, Acute Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica).
Books of forms of notification (special books for
Puerperal Pyrexia, Measles and Whooping Cough)
available at Public Health Department.
LABORATORY SERVICES- Outfits kept at the
Public Health Department. Throat swabs for
Diphtheria, Streptococci, Vincent's Angina and
similar swabs for Puerperal cases, sterile syringes
in tin boxes for vein tap with test-tubes for
blood culture or agglutination, e.g. typhoid
group and bacillus abortus, sputum pots for
tubercle, etc., faeces pots with spoons, test-tubes
for urine examination, glass slides in small boxes
for blood films, smears of pus, ophthalmia, etc.
test-tubes for Cerebro-spinal fluid. Re Puerperal
Pyrexia - examination of swabs (e.g. from nose,
throat, vagina and cervix) from patient or from
contacts for haemolytic streptococci and typing
and grouping of the streptococci. Any other
special outfits available on request. Swabs,
etc. may be sent by post in appropriate containers
and envelopes to the Emergency Public Health
Laboratory, Bland Sutton Institute, Middlesex
Hospital, London, W. l. Van calls at the Public
Health Department daily, except Saturday and
Sunday, at 10 a.m. In addition, transport of
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