| Description | Papers and correspondence regarding infectious diseases notifications.
Includes: notice to medical practitioners from the Whiston Rural District Council Medical Officer of Health, Thomas U. Mercer, listing a number of diseases notifiable in the Whiston Rural District (Sep 1935); list of the houses on the Liverpool Corporation's Estate, Knowsley, situated in the Whiston Rural District, with street names and house numbers (c. 1937); correspondence with Dr. A. Clein, Huyton, concerning notifications of diseases he has made, disputes over payments for these and complaints about the notifications system used by Whiston R.D.C. (May - Oct 1937, Jun 1938, Dec 1940); copy of Statutory Rules and Orders 1940 no. 204, Notification of Infectious Diseases (Feb 1940); correspondence with the County Medical Officer regarding notifications of infectious diseases in respect of patients in the Whiston County Hospital (Mar - Apr 1941); circular letter to medical practitioners from the Medical Officer of Health, T.U. Mercer, concerning notification of disease (May 1943); circular letter to all Rural District Councils from South Kesteven Rural District Council suggesting that all venereal diseases should be made notifiable by law (Aug 1943); statements from the Medical Officer of Health and the Chief Sanitary Inspector calling for chicken pox to be added to the list of notifiable diseases in the Whiston Rural District and correspondence with the Ministry of Health concerning this (Mar - Apr 1944); Ministry of Health circular no. 140/48 concerning notification of infectious diseases (Aug 1948); copy of Statutory Instruments 1953 no. 299, Notification and Prevention of Infectious Diseases (Feb 1953); Ministry of Health circular 6/53, the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1953 (Mar 1953). |