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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.
By order of the Borough Council approved by the Local
Government Board, zymotic enteritis was made compulsorily
notifiable in 1913. This disease is only notifiable in Greenwich
and Woolwich.
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.
Children absent from school on account of measles and
whooping-cough are notified by the school teacher or