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SECTION F — INFECTIOUS ILLNESS
Notification. The Public Health (Infectious Disease)
Regulations, 1953, came into force on the 1st April, revoking
the Public Health (Infectious Disease) Regulations, 1927.
They correspond with the revoked regulations in requiring
notification of malaria, dysentery, acute primary pneumonia
and acute influenzal pneumonia. In addition, they extend the
precautionary measures against food poisoning by relating
these to typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever or other salmonella
infections, dysentery and staphylococcal infection likely to
cause food poisoning. Under the new regulations it is now
possible to prevent persons suffering from these diseases, and
persons shown to be carriers, from continuing employment as
food handlers and also from entering such employment. Also, the
local authority can now authorise the Medical Officer of Health
to issue notices in emergency, when he considers such action
necessary to check the spread of these diseases.
The following diseases are notifiable in the district:-
Acute Encephalitis Leprosy
(Infective) Malaria
Acute Encephalitis Measles
(Post-Infectious) Meningococcal Infection
Acute Poliomyelitis Ophthalmia Neonatorum
(Paralytic) Plague
Acute Poliomyelitis Pneumonia, Primary
(Non-Paralytic) Pneumonia, Influenzal
Cholera Puerperal Pyrexia
Continued Fever Relapsing Fever
Diphtheria (including Scarlet Fever
membranous Croup) Smallpox
Dysentery Trench Fever
Enteric Fever (including Typhus Fever
paratyphoid fevers) Tuberculosis (all forms)
Erysipelas Whooping Cough
Food Poisoning
Smallpox. There were no cases notified during the year,
neither were we required to undertake surveillance of any
contacts.
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