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Cholera

One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life esp the one commonly called Asiatic cholera...

Choleraic

Relating to or resulting from or resembling cholera...

Cholera Act (2 Wm. 4, c. 10), continued by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 75. It has expired, and has not been revived; but the (English) Public health Act, 1936, s. 143, replacing s. 134, (English) P. H. Act, 1875, gives power to the Minister of Health to make regulations for the prevention of 'any epidemic disease.'...

Choleriform

Resembling cholera...

Cholerine

The precursory symptoms of cholera...

Microbe

A microscopic organism a microorganism particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms as the microbe of fowl cholera...

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....

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...

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)]...

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