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SECTION VII.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
In addition to food poisoning (which is reported on in Section IV) 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
So far as London is concerned, the authority for institutional treatment is the
London County Council. Woolwich cases are usually admitted to the Brook Hospital,
Greenwich, the Park Hospital, Lewisham, or the Joyce Green Hospital, Dartford,
but the more uncommon types of infectious disease may be admitted to any
of the County Council's infectious disease hospitals.
The total number of primary notifications, excluding cases of tuberculosis,
which are dealt with later in this Section, was 1,764, compared with 1,172 in 1932.
Measles was not present in epidemic form during the year.
In tabular form are shown in the next five Tables statistics relating to the
incidence of infectious disease in the Borough in 1933 and previous years.