Erysipelas - Law Dictionary Search Results
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St Anthonys fire a febrile disease accompanied with a diffused red edematous inflammation of the skin which starting usually from a single point spreads gradually over its surface It is often accompanied by severe constitutional symptoms It is caused by a group A hemolytic streptococcus Streptococcus pyogenes is contagious and formerly often occured epidemically...
Erysipelatoid
Resembling erysipelas...
Erysipelatous
Resembling erysipelas or partaking of its nature...
erysipeloid
a usually self limiting cellulitis of the hand somewhat resembling erysipelas caused by the bacterium Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae It may start at the site of a wound obtained while handling meat or fish and may occasionally become generalizd with protracted illness and severe toxemia...
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...
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