CONTROL OF EPIDEMICS.
NEW REGULATIONS MADE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Regulations under the Health Act 1920 as to infectious and notifiable diseases were gazetted this week. The regulations deal with notification of disease by medical practitioners, notification of deaths by undertakers, the duties of inspectors, the isolation of persons suffering from infectious diseases, control of "contacts" and "carriers." exclusion from school' of patients and contact?, organisation of local committees to assist the medical officer of health of the district in the case of an epidemic breaking out, and vaccination against I smallpox. The following are notifiable infectious diseases under the Health Act 1920: Chickenpox. encephalitis lethargic*, fulminant influenza, pnemonic influenza. I septieaemic influenza, ophthalmia, nen- ! natorum. acute primary pneumonia, I acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralyi-L trachoma, tuberculosis. ——————-
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 55, 5 March 1921, Page 6
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