Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stepney]
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Table 20.
DISEASES NOTIFIABLE IN LONDON
Disease | Authority for Notification |
---|---|
Acute Encephalitis | P.H.Act, 1936 (s.143); SI. 1949/2259. |
" Influenzal Pneumonia - | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI. 1953/299. |
" Primary Pneumonia | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI. 1953/299. |
" Poliomyelitis | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI .194.9/2259. |
Anthrax | L.C.C. Order, 1909; P.H.(L)Act, 193& (S.305); SI.1960/1989. |
Chicken Pox - | (Notifiable in Port of London only.) |
Cholera | P.II.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304.). |
Diphtheria - | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304.). |
Dysentery Enteric Fever (including | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI.1953/299. |
Typhoid and Paratyphoid) - | P.'H.(L)Act, 1936 (S. 192 & 304.); SI .1953/299. |
Erysipelas | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304.). |
Food Poisoning - | F.&.D. Act, 1955 (S.26). |
German Measles - | (Notifiable in Port of London only,) |
Glanders - | L.C.C. Order, 1909; P.H.(L) Act, 1936 (S.192 & 305). |
Hydrophobia | P.II.Act, 1936 (S.143). |
* Leprosy | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI.I951/IO36. |
Malaria - | P.H .Act, 1936 (S.14.3); SI.1953/299. |
Measles - | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192); SRO. 1938/1100; SRO .194.O/205 and SI .1948/420. |
Membranous Croup | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Meningococcal Infection - | P.II.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI. 1949/2259. |
/ Ophthalmia Neonatorum | L.C.C. Order, 1910; P.H.(L)Act,. 1936 (S.192 & 305); SRO.1926/971 & 1937/35; SRO.1928/419. |
Plague | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); LGB. Reg., 1900, |
Puerperal Pyrexia - | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI. 1951/1081 and si .1954/1691. |
Relapsing Fever | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Scabies | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SRO. 1943/1016. |
Scarlet Fever - | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Smallpox | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Tuberculosis - | P.H.Act, 1936 (S.143); SI.1952/704. |
Typhus Fever | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192 & 304). |
Whooping Cough | P.H.(L)Act, 1936 (S.192); SRO.1938/1100 & 1940/205; 0SI.1948/420. |
Yellow Fever | (Notifiable in Port of London.) |
Zymotic Enteritis, or | |
Sumner Diarrhoea | (Notifiable in 9 Metropolitan Boroughs only |
- not notifiable in Stepney.) |
* Notifiable to the Ministry of Health.
/ " " " County Medical Officer of Health for London,
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