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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 admissable
under special conditions:—Measles and whooping-cough.
The special conditions are that pauper oases have the
priority, and that the case is specially recommended by the
Medical Offioer of Health.
In June I presented the following report:—
"Compulsory Notification of Zymotic Enteritis. Voluntary
notification of zymotic enteritis in Woolwich has been
in force since 1905, and the usual fees paid by the
Borough Council. When this was first introduced (no
other Borough had commenced or proposed to institute
notification of this disease, and the Local Government
Board would not probably have approved of making the
disease compulsorily notifiable in Woolwich alone, the
policy then being not to allow the notification of disease