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PREDA l I lONAR Y REGI.'RATIONS. , A ELLINGTON, March 4. Regulations under tho Health Act, 1920, as to infectious and notifiable diseases are gazetted this week. The regulations deal with the notification of disease by medical practitioners, the notification of deaths by undertakers, the duties of inspectors in the isolation of persons suffering from infectious diseases, the control of ‘-contacts” and ’■carriers,” the exclusion from school of patients and contacts, tho organisation of local committees to assist the Tuudiral officer of health of a district iu the case of an epidemic breaking out, and vaccination against smallpox. The following arc declared notifiable infectious diseases under the Health Act, 1920 : —Chiekenpox, encephalitis lethargical, fulminant influenza, pneumonic influenza, sopt icsemio influenza, ophthalmia neonatorum, acute primary pneumonia, acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), trachoma, tuberculosis (pulmonary).
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Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 8 March 1921, Page 22
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