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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:—
Although notification of an infectious disease in a house is incumbent not
only upon the medical practitioner in attendance but also 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 to be sent to the Medical Officer of
Health of the district in which the usual 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.
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 (or Scarlatina)
Smallpox
Tuberculosis
Typhus Fever
Zymotic Enteritis