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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

Merton and Morden 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Merton & Morden]

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SECTION E—INSPECTION AND SUPERVISION OP
FOOD.
(See Sanitary Inspector's Report, on page 44).
SECTION F—INFECTIOUS ILLNESS.
Notification. The following diseases are notifiable in
the Urban District:—
Cholera.
Cerebrospinal fever.
Continued fever.
Diphtheria (including membranous
croup).
Dysentery.
Enteric Fever (including
paratyphoid fevers).
Erysipelas.
Encephalitis Lethargica.
Food poisoning.
Malaria.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Plague.
Acute Primary pneumonia.
Acute influenzal pneumonia.
Acute Poliomyelitis.
Acute Polioencephalitis.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Relapsing fever.
Scarlet fever.
Smallpox.
Trench fever.
Typhus fever.
Tuberculosis (all forms).
Whooping Cough.
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