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A disease frequently induced by remaining for some time in an atmosphere of high pressure as in caissons diving bells etc It is characterized by neuralgic pains and paralytic symptoms It is caused by the release of bubbles of gas usually nitrogen from bodily fluids into the blood and tissues when a person having been in an environment with high air pressure moves to a lower pressure environment too rapidly for the excess dissolved gases to be released through normal breathing It may be fatal but can be reversed or alleviated by returning the affected person to a high air pressure and then gradually decreasing the pressure to allow the gases to be released from the body fluids It is a danger well known to divers It is also called the bends and decompression sickness It can be prevented in divers by a slow return to normal pressure or by using a breathing mixture of oxygen combined with a gas having low solubility in water such as helium...
Infectious diseases
Infectious diseases. It is an indictable offence to expose in a public frequented highway a person suffering from an infectious disorder, R. v. Vantandillo, (1815) 4 M. & S. 73. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 49), ss. 143 to 180, repealing (from October, 1937) ss. 120-143 of the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, contains various provisions calculated to prevent the spread of dangerous infectious diseases.Notification.--The (English) Public health Act, 1936, also repeals (from October, 1937) the (English) Infectious Diseases Notification Act, 1889 (52 & 53 Vict. c. 72), and enjoins the notification to the Medical Officer of Health of the district of certain specific diseases therein named, and also of other diseases added to the list by the local authority, s. 343 enacting that 'notifiable disease.'--Means any of the following diseases, namely, small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas, the disease known as scarlatina or scarlet fe...
Disease (poultry)
Disease (poultry), means fowl pest in any of its form (including Newcastle disease and fowl plague) fowl cholera, infectious bronchitis, infectious laryngotra cheitis, pullorum disease, fowl typhoid, fowl pox and fowl paralysis; but the ministers may be order extend the definition to include other bird diseases or restrict it so as to exclude any of the foregoing diseases expert fowl pest in any of its forms, Halsbury's Laws of England (2), para 517, p. 286....
Venereal disease
Venereal disease. The (English) Venereal Disease Act, 1917, prohibits the treatment of venereal disease otherwise than by a duly qualified medical practitioner. Advertisement o cures, treatment, etc., is prohibited except when made to duly qualified medical practitioners or chemists or by public authorities. Venereal disease is defined as meaning syphilis, gonorrh'a, or soft chancre, and see INFECTIOUS DISEASES; Public Health Acts, 1875-1936; Local Government Acts, 1929 and 1933. See also SLANDER and CRUELTY. [Referred, Hindu Marriage Act, 1955 (25 of 1955), s. 13(1)(v)]...
Contagious disease
A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it or with some secretion of or object touched by such a patient Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases and their communicability depends on the transmission of the living germs Many germ diseases are not contagious some special method of transmission or inoculation of the germs being required...
Endemic disease
Endemic disease. A disease habitually prevalent in a certain country and due to permanent local causes, Oxf. Dict. Public Health Act, 1936, Part V. (ss. 143 et seq.), repealing and extending the (English) Public Health Act, 1875, empowers the local authority to make regulations to prevent the spreading of any formidable epidemic, endemic, or infectious disease. See INFECTIOUS DISEASE....
Infectious or contagious disease
Infectious or contagious disease, means cholera, leprosy, enteric fever, small-pox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, plague influenza venereal disease, and any other epidemic, endemic or infectious disease which the Central Government may, by notification in the Official Gazette, declare to be, an infectious or contagious disease for the purposes of this Act. [Cantonments Act, 1924 (2 of 1924), s. 2 (xvii)]...
mental disease
mental disease : an abnormal mental condition that interferes with mental or emotional processes and internal behavioral control and that is not manifest only in repeated criminal or antisocial conduct ;broadly : mental illness NOTE: Mental disease and mental illness are in general use synonymous, but mental disease has developed a settled meaning in criminal law while mental illness is often explained or defined by reference to the medical community's understanding of the term. ...
Epidemic disease
Epidemic disease. A disease prevalent among a people or a community at a special time, and produced by some special causes not generally present in the affected locality, Oxf. Dict. See INFECTIOUS DISEASE....
Industrial disease
Industrial disease. Compensation is provided for a workman under the Workmen's Compensation Act (which see) in respect of certain diseases. As to notification of an industrial disease occurring in a mine, see Coal Mines Act, 1911, s. 79....
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