Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1959.

  • Bermondsey (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1960]
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Credit: Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1959. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INFECTIOUS DISEASES NOTIFICATION OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES Every medical practitioner attending on, or called in to visit a patient, shall, as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is suffering from a notifiable infectious disease, send to the Medical Officer of Health of the district in which the disease occurs a certificate stating the name and address of the patient and the disease from which the patient is suffering. Books of certificates are available free of charge from this Department. The following diseases are notifiable:— Acute Encephalitis Malaria Acute Gastro Enteritis Measles Acute Influenzal Pneumonia Membranous Croup Meningococcal Infection Acute Primary Pneumonia Acute Poliomyelitis Ophthalmia Neonatorum Anthrax Plague Cholera Puerperal Pyrexia Continued Fever Relapsing Fever Diphtheria *Scabies Dysentery Scarlatina or Scarlet Fever Enteric Fever (includes Typhoid and Paratyphoid) Small-pox Erysipelas Tuberculosis Food Poisoning Typhus Fever Glanders Whooping Cough Hydrophobia in Man Leprosy (to be notified to Chief Medical Officer, Ministry of Health). *A notification is not required where to the knowledge of the medical practitioner, a case of scabies has occurred in the house and has been notified within the four weeks immediately preceding the date on which he first became aware of the disease in the case he is attending. FOOD POISONING Forty-seven cases of food poisoning were notified to me during the year under The Food and Drugs Act, 1955, Section 26.