Notification and Prevention of Infectious Disease [Part III of Public Health Act, 60 Vic. No. 38]
Production date
1941-1974
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This Notification of Infectious Diseases book was specifically designed for keeping infectious diseases records, with handwritten entries. A label pasted inside the front cover reads: ‘Register of Notifications of Infectious Disease received by the Local Authority for the Municipal District of West Maitland under the Public Health Act 1896, Part III, and the Regulations duly made under the said Act’ with the explanation: ‘The use of this Register is to keep the Local Authority informed of the localities in which cases of infectious (or preventable) disease exist, so that they may advise through their Sanitary Inspector, or themselves take, such steps as may be necessary and in accordance with the law to prevent spread as much as possible from the infected dwellings.'
As time goes on the Register will occasionally show repeated or unusual prevalences of infectious diseases in particular parts of the district, which the Local Authority should then examine to ascertain and remove any specially unhealthy conditions existing in it.
The information recorded includes: date and receipt of report, name of medical practitioner, name of patient, sex, age, disease, address where patient is, milk supply, school, residence at date of attack, date sanitary inspector visited and served notices, premises disinfected, any matter requiring attention.
Some of the double page spreads include at the bottom of the page totals of patients with particular infectious diseases.
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Statement of Significance completed by Janis Wilton, 2022
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