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SECTION VII.
PREVALENCE AND CONTROL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
In addition to food poisoning, which is reported on in Section V., the
following diseases are notifiable in the Borough :
Anthrax
Cerebro-spinal Meningitis
Cholera
Continued Fever
Diphtheria
Dysentery
Encephalitis Lethargica
Erysipelas
Enteric (or Typhoid) Fever
Glanders
Hydrophobia
Malaria
Membraneous Croup
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Pneumonia—Acute Primary
Pneumonia—Acute Influenzal
Poliomyelitis
Polio-encephalitis
Plague
Puerperal Fever
Puerperal Pyrexia
Relapsing Fever
Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Tuberculosis
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 cases 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 Woolwich
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,
Dartford, or indeed, to any of the fever hospitals belonging to the London County
Council in the County of London.