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diphtheria, erysipelas, scarlet fever, typhus, typhoid or
enteric fever, relapsing fever, continued fever and puerperal
fever. Exposure of persons and articles infected with these
diseases is penal, and disinfection can be enforced.
By order of the London County Council, approved by the
Local Government Board, made under Section 56 of Public
Health (London) Act, the following diseases have since been
added to the list:—Polio-myelitis, cerebro-spinal fever,
ophthalmia neonatorum, glanders, anthrax, and hydrophobia.
In 1911 the Local Government Board made pulmonary
tuberculosis notifiable by an order under Section 130, Public
Health Act, 1875 (treatment and prevention of spread of
cholera and any other epidemic, endemic, or infectious diseases),
and under a similar order all forms of tuberculosis were
made notifiable on February 1st, 1913. In the case of all
these latter diseases the notification is for the information of
the Health Department only; exposure is not penal, nor
disinfection compulsory. The object is to get such measures
carried out voluntarily as the circumstances of the case
demand.
The following notifiable diseases are admitted to the Asylums
Board Hospitals:—Small-pox, scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric
fever, continued, typhus, and relapsing fevers, puerperal
fever (under special conditions).
The following non-notifiable diseases are also admissible
under special conditions:—Measles and whooping-cough.
The special conditions are that pauper cases have the
priority, and that the case is specially recommended by the
Medical Officer of Health.