Statistics of notifiable infectious diseases / Sanitary Bureau, Home Department.

  • Japan. Naimushō. Central Sanitary Bureau.
Date:
1924
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Credit: Statistics of notifiable infectious diseases / Sanitary Bureau, Home Department. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITARY BUREAU OF HOME DEPARTMENT. December, 1924. ューー つ 00 oe ____—_ Preceding the compilation of the statistics of infectious disease, we give here- under a cursory history of the laws and regulations of this country regarding the prevention of infectious disease. The first measures for the prevention of infectious disease in this country were taken by Decree No. 49 of the Supreme Council of the Empire in April, 1875 (Regu- lations for the relief of the poor during the prevalence of epidemics); subsequently there were enacted the Ordinance No. 12 B of the Home Department in February, 1876 (providing that physicians should report the condition of the patients attended by them, suffering from epidemics), the Ordinance No. 16 A of the Home Dopart- ment in May of the same year (Regulations for the Prevention of Small-Pox), the Ordinance No. 79 B of the Home Department in August, 1877 (providing for preven- tive measures in case of cholera), the Decree No. 23 of the Supreme Council of the Empire in June, 1879 (Provisional Regulations for the Prevention of Cholera), and the Regulations for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases in July, 1880, which pro- vided for the undermentioned diseases to be reportable ones: Cholera, Typhoid Fever, Dysentery, Typhus, Small-Pox, Diphtheria. By Law No. 36 for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases enacted in April, 1897, plague and scarlet fever were made reportable in addition to the 6 infectious diseases mentioned above, while the Regulations for the Prevention of Infectious Diseases were abrogated. Croup was recognized as included in diphtheria by Law No. 56 in March, 1905, amending in part the above Law; para-typhoid fever and epidemic cerebrospinal 2