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The following diseases are notifiable to the Medical Officer of
Health:—
Smallpox.
Cholera.
Diphtheria.
Membranous Croup.
Erysipelas.
Scarlatina or
Scarlet Fever.
Typhus Fever.
Typhoid Fever.
Enteric Fever.
Relapsing Fever.
Continued Fever.
Puerperal Fever.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Pemphigus Neonatorum.
Cerebro-Spinal Fever.
Plague.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Tuberculosis.
Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Acute Primary Pneumonia.
Dysentery (including amoebic
and bacillary dysentery).
Malaria.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Acute Polio-Encephalitis.
Acute Encephalitis Lethargica.
Anthrax.
Acute Rheumatism. ^
In addition to the above infectious diseases notifiable to the Medical
Officer of Health, certain industrial diseases are notifiable to the Chief
Inspector of Factories, by medical practitioners under Section 73 of the
Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, and Statutory Rules and Orders 1775,
1170 and 1505.
These are cases of lead, phosphorus, arsenical, mercurial, carbon
bisulphide, aniline and chronic benzene poisoning, anthrax, toxic jaundice,
epitheliomatous or chrome ulceration, contracted in any factory or workshop.
Application was made to the Ministry of Health requesting that rheumatism
be made notifiable in children up to 16 years of age, and on the 18th
March, 1935, an Order was made to operate as from 1st April, 1935, as
follows:—
The Ilford (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations, 1935, dated
March 18, 1935, made by the Minister of Health.
Whereas the Minister of Health is empowered by section 130 of the
Public Health Act, 1875, as amended by the Public Health Act, 1896,
from time to time to make alter and revoke regulations with a view
to the treatment of persons affected with any endemic or infectious
disease and for preventing the spread of the disease and to provide
for the enforcement and execution of the regulations;
And whereas acute rheumatism as herein defined is an endemic
disease:
Now therefore the Minister of Health in pursuance of the recited
enactments and of all powers enabling him in that behalf hereby makes
the following regulations that is to say:—
Definitions.
1.—(1) In these regulations unless the context otherwise requires:—
(a) The expression "local authority" means the council of
the borough of Ilford;