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SECTION F.
PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The following diseases are notifiable to the Medical Officer of Health:—
1. Under Sections 144 and 343, Public Health Act, 1936.
Smallpox. Typhoid Fever.
Cholera. Enteric Fever or Relapsing Fever.
Diphtheria. Anthrax (made notifiable by the Local
Membranous Croup. Authority as from 1/4/22).
Erysipelas. Pemphigus Neonatorum (made notiScarlatina
or Scarlet Fever. fiable by Local Authority as from
Typhus Fever. 29/6/29).
2. Under Regulations of the Ministry of Health.
Plague L.G.B. Order, 19/9/1900.
Puerperal Pyrexia The Puerperal Pyrexia Regulations, 1939.
Cerebro-spinal Fever P.H. (Cerebro-spinal Fever and Acute
Acute Poliomyelitis Poliomyelitis) Regulations, 1912.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum P.H. (Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations,
1926.
Acute Primary and Acute
Influenzal Pneumonia P.H. (Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery,
Dysentery etc.) Regulations, 1927.
Malaria
P.H. (Acute Encephalitis Lethargica and
Actue Polio-encephalitis Acute Polio-encephalitis Regulations,
Encephalitis Lethargica 1918.
Tuberculosis P.H. (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930.
Acute Rheumatism (up to 16 Ilford (Acute Rheumatism) Regulations,
years) 1947.
Measles and Whooping Cough The Measles and Whooping Cough Regulations,
1940.
3. By Local Act.
Food Poisoning Ilford Corporation Act, 1937, and Food
and Drugs Act, 1938.
In addition to the above diseases notifiable to the Medical Officer of
Health, certain industrial diseases are notifiable to the Chief Inspector of
Factories, Home Office, under Section 66 of the Factories Act, 1937. These
are cases of Lead, Phosphorus, Arsenical or Mercurial Poisoning or Anthrax
contracted in any factory. The Secretary of State can add other diseases to
those mentioned by Regulation.