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SECTION F
PREVALENCE OF. AND CONTROL OVER.
INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES
The following infectious diseases are notifiable to the
Medical Officer of Health of the Borough:-
Scarlet Fever
Whooping Cough
Diphtheria (including Membranous Croup)
Measles (excluding Rubella)
Acute Pneumonia (primary or influenzal)
Meningococcal Infection
s Acute Poliomyelitis - paralytic
" - non-paralytic
Acute Encephalitis - infective
" - post infectious
Dysentery
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Puerperal Pyrexia
Smallpox
Para-typhoid Fevers
Enteric or Typhoid Fever (excluding Paratyphoid)
Food Poisoning
Erysipelas
Chiekenpox
Malaria
Cholora
Plague
Typhus Fever
Relapsing Fever
Tuberculosis
( Acute poliomyelitis includes acute polioencephalitis).
Leprosy is notifiable by General Medical Practitioners
direct to the Chief Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health,
In 19f- a total of 510 notifications of infectious disease
was reeelved, compared with 763 in 1951. This decrease is due
to a decline in the number of notifications of scarlet fever,
measles, and whooping cough, and a general improvement over
last yeti is apparent.
Ths following table gives an analysis of the cases into
age groupSo .