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SECTION VIII.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OVER INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
In London the institutional authority for infectious diseases is the London
County Council. Woolwich cases are usually admitted to the Brook Hospital,
Greenwich, the Park Hospital, Lewisham, or the Joyce Green Hospital at Dartford,
but the more uncommon types of infectious diseases may be admitted to any of the
County Council's infectious disease hospitals. The Borough Council is only responsible
for investigating the origin of the diseases and for taking the necessary steps to
prevent their spread.
Observations on the working of the Vaccination Acts will be found in Section III,
and such information as is available on the non-notifiable acute infectious diseases will
be found in Section II.
The following diseases are notifiable in the Borough:—
Anthrax Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Cerebrospinal Meningitis Pneumonia—Acute Primary
Cholera Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal
Continued Fever Poliomyelitis
Diphtheria Plague
Dysentery Puerperal Fever
Encephalitis Lethargica Puerperal Pyrexia
Erysipelas Relapsing Fever
Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever Scarlet Fever
Glanders Smallpox
Hydrophobia Tuberculosis
Malaria Typhus Fever
Membraneous Croup Zymotic Enteritis
The total number of primary notifications, excluding cases of tuberculosis which
are referred to later on in this Section, was 1,172, compared with 1,879 in 1931,
and 2,172 in 1930; but as 672 notifications were included in respect of Chickenpox
in 1931, and 597 in 1930, the fall in the incidence of notifications of infectious
disease is more apparent than real. Measles was present in epidemic form during the
year.