Notification or reporting by a physician or other health care provider of the occurrence of specified contagious diseases such as tuberculosis and HIV infections to designated public health agencies. The United States system of reporting notifiable diseases evolved from the Quarantine Act of 1878, which authorized the US Public Health Service to collect morbidity data on cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever; each state in the US has its own list of notifiable diseases and depends largely on reporting by the individual health care provider. (From Segen, Dictionary of Modern Medicine, 1992)
    

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Order by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries dated 5th April 1904 : epizootic lymphangitis order of 1904 / David Lyon, Depute Town Clerk.

Abstract of quarantine regulations : it is in the first place to be observed, that all persons are presumed to know, and are bound to take notice, not only of quarantine regulations established by Act of Parliament, (as they are of any other Public Act), but likewise every Order in Council made for the performance of quarantine.

The British response to AIDS : technical programme for delegates to the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention : 29 January 1988 : Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Churchill Auditorium.

Serious communicable diseases : guidance for doctors / General Medical Council.

Facts and suggestions on the registration of disease / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

Report of Committee and list of members : 1876 / Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.

Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 : part III Notifiable Diseases and Food Poisoning the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1968.

Notification of infective jaundice / Philip Muston.

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Serious communicable diseases : guidance for doctors / General Medical Council.

Facts and suggestions on the registration of disease / by Benjamin W. Richardson.

Report of Committee and list of members : 1876 / Sanitary Institute of Great Britain.

Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 : part III Notifiable Diseases and Food Poisoning the Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1968.

Notification of infective jaundice / Philip Muston.