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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Kingston upon Thames 1968
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]
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Consequently, the infectious diseases to be notified to
the medical officer of health are now:
Acute Encephalitis
Acute Meningitis
Acute Poliomyelitis
Anthrax
Cholera
Diphtheria
Dysentery (Amoebic or
Bacillary)
Food Poisoning (or
Suspected Food Poisoning)
Infective Jaundice
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Malaria
Measles
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Paratyphoid Fever
Plague
Relapsing Fever
Scarlet Fever
Smallpox
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhoid Fever
Typhus
Whooping Cough
Yellow Fever
The following diseases are no longer notifiable:
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Acute Rheumatism
Erysipelas
Membranous Croup
Puerperal Fyrexia
Under the same Act the notification fee payable to medical
practitioners was increased to 5s.Od from 1st October 1968.
The following table shews the numbers of cases notified during 1968 by age groups:-
| Disease | Under 5 | 5-14 | 15-44 | 45-64 | 65 and over | Age unknown | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Scarlet Fever | 8 | 12 | - | - | - | - | 20 |
| Whooping Cough | 12 | 7 | 1 | - | - | - | 20 |
| Measles | 190 | 97 | 6 | - | - | - | 293 |
| Dysentery | 12 | 11 | 4 | - | - | - | 27 |
| Acute Pneumonia | - | 1 | 1 | - | 1 | - | 3 |
| Infective Jaundice | - | - | 4 | 1 | - | - | 5 |
| Erysipelas | - | - | - | 1 | - | - | 1 |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | 27 | - | - | - | 27 |
| Tuberculosis, Respiratory | 1 | - | 16 | 12 | 6 | - | 35 |
| Tuberculosis, other | - | - | 2 | 2 | - | - | 4 |
| Totals | 223 | 128 | 61 | 16 | 7 | - | 435 |