[Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C. / Borough.

  • Watford (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1972
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Credit: [Report 1972] / Medical Officer of Health, Watford U.D.C. / Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1968 PUBLIC HEALTH (INFECTIOUS DISEASES) REGULATIONS NOTIFICATION OF FOOD POISONING AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES The infectious diseases now to be notified to the Medical Officer of Health are Acute encephalitis Acute meningitis Acute poliomyelitis Anthrax Cholera Diphtheria Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary) Infective jaundice Leprosy Leptospirosis Malaria Measles Ophthalmia neonatorum Paratyphoid fever Plague Relapsing fever Scarlet fever Smallpox Tetanus Tuberculosis Typhoid fever Typhus Whooping cough Yellow fever To this list the local authority should add any disease made notifiable in its area under an order made under Section 147 of the Public Health Act 1936 or Section 52 of the Health Services and Public Health Act 1968. TABLE VII VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION OF CHILDREN (PERCENTAGE IMMUNISED) Children born in 1971 and vaccinated by 31.12.72 Whooping Cough — Diphtheria Poliomyelitis England 79 81 80 Hertfordshire 82 85 85