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INFECTIOUS AND OTHER DISEASES.
The list of notifiable infectious diseases has been extended and
now includes the following diseases, viz.:—Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Erysipelas, Enteric Fever, Puerperal Fever, Cerebro-Spinal Fever,
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, other Tuberculous Diseases, Smallpox, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Poliomyelitis, Anthrax, Primary Pneumonia,
Influenzal Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, Trench Fever, Encephalitis
lethargica Polio-Encephalitis and Diarrhoea in children of two years of
age and under.
Notifiable Infectious Diseases. Under the provisions of
Public Health (London) Act, 1881, and the Tuberculosis Regulations,
1,765 notifications of cases of infectious diseases were received, as
compared with 3,087 in 1919. This decrease is entirely due to the
fact that by Order of the Ministry of Health, Measles is no longer a
notifiable disease.
Deaths from Epidemic Diseases. To the seven principal
epidemic diseases (Small-pox, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria,
Whooping Cough, Enteric Fever, Diarrhoeal Diseases) 98 deaths were
ascribed, and the death-rate from them was 0.8 per 1,000 of the
estimated civilian population, as against 0.7 per 1,000 in the preceding
year. A summary of the deaths from epidemic diseases will be found
in Table 2, and a list of the cases notified in Table 4.

In addition to the above, 578 specimens of sputa were examined at
the Council's Tuberculosis Dispensary.