New Zealand Gazette – 1921 – No. 17

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✨ Health Regulations and Infectious Diseases

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and of the nursing service attached thereto, and for the carrying-out of any regulations from time to time in force in respect of his duties.

Every District Medical Officer and every Assistant Medical Officer shall be responsible to the Chief Medical Officer for the efficient execution of the duties assigned to him under any regulations made in accordance with this Order or by the Chief Medical Officer.
The Secretary of the Department shall carry out such duties as are provided by regulations or as are assigned to him by the Senior Medical Officer (as defined in subclause (5) of clause 9 hereto).
The Hospital Steward shall carry out such duties as are assigned to him by regulations or by the Resident Medical Officer.
The Inspectors of Health shall perform such duties as are provided by regulations under this Order, or as are assigned to them by the Medical Officers of Health.
The Administrator, on the advice of the Board of Health, may from time to time make regulations for all or any of the aforesaid purposes and for the conservation and promotion of the public health.

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SCHEDULE.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES.

Anthrax.
Cerebro-spinal fever (cerebro-spinal meningitis).
Cholera.
Dengue.
Diphtheria.
Erysipelas.
Enteric fever (typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever).
Leprosy.
Plague (bubonic or pneumonic).
Puerperal fever (puerperal septicæmia, puerperal sapræmia).
Scarlet fever (scarlatina).
Smallpox (variola, including varioloid, alastrim, amaas, Cuban itch, and Philippine itch).
Typhus.
Yellow fever.
Chicken-pox (varicella).
Encephalitis lethargica.
Influenza.
Fulminant influenza.
Pneumonic influenza.
Septicæmic influenza.
Measles (morbilli).
German measles (rubella).
Mumps (epidemic parotitis).
Ophthalmia neonatorum.
Acute primary pneumonia.
Acute poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis).
Ringworm of the scalp (tinea tonsurans).
Scabies (itch).
Trachoma (granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, granular eyelids).
Tuberculosis (pulmonary).
Tetanus.
Whooping-cough (pertussis).