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SECTION VII.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
In addition to food poisoning, which is reported on in the preceding Section,
the following diseases are notifiable in the Borough:—
Anthrax Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis Pneumonia—Acute Primary
Cholera Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal
Continued Fever Poliomyelitis
Diphtheria Polio-encephalitis
Dysentery Plague
Encephalitis Lethargica Puerperal Fever
Erysipelas Puerperal Pyrexia
Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever Relapsing Fever
Glanders Scarlet Fever
Hydrophobia Smallpox
Malaria Tuberculosis
Membraneous Croup Typhus Fever
Zymotic Enteritis
Although notification of an infectious disease in a house is incumbent not only
upon the medical practitioner in attendance, but upon the head of the family, or the
nearest relative or person in charge of the patient, in actual fact it is a rare thing
for a lay notification to be received. If the patient is an inmate of a hospital in
most cases the certificate is sent to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in
which the normal residence of the patient is situate, but notifications of malaria,
dysentery and the acute pneumonias, are always notifiable to the Medical Officer
of Health of the District in which the patient is residing at the time he is notified.
In London, the London County Council maintain institutions for the isolation
and treatment of the sick suffering from infectious diseases. Cases from W oolwich
are usually admitted to the Brook Hospital, Greenwich, or to the Park Hospital,
Lewisham, but during times of pressure cases are sent to Joyce Green Hospital,
Lartford, or indeed, to any other of the fever hospitals belonging to the London
County Council in the County of London.
ihe less common infectious diseases are admitted to any of the London County
Council's infectious disease hospitals, but it is the practice of the County Council