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1962, No. 76 Health Amendment 599 ANALYSIS Title 1. Short Title 2. Notice of cases of notifiable disease 3. Restrictions applying while ship liable to quarantine Schedule 1962, No. 76 An Act to amend the Health Act 1956 [6 December 1962 BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. Short Title-This Act may be cited as the Health Amendment Act 1962, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Health Act 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act). 2. Notice of cases of notifiable disease- ( 1) Section 74 of the principal Act is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (a) of subsection (1) the words "to the local authority of the district and to the Medical Officer of Health", and substituting the words "to the Medical Officer of Health, and, except where the disease is specified in Section B of Part I of the First Schedule to this Act, to the local authority of the district". (2) The principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing the First Schedule, and substituting the First Schedule set out in the Schedule to this Act. (3) The Infectious Diseases Order 1958 and the Infectious Diseases Order 1959 are hereby consequentially revoked. 600 Health Amendment 1962, No. 76 3. Restrictions applying while ship liable to quarantineSection 99 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to paragraph (b) of subsection (1) the words "or an Inspector appointed under section 6 of the Department of Agriculture Act 1953". Section 2 SCHEDULE NEW FIRST SCHEDULE TO THE HEALTH ACT 1956 Section 2 "FIRST SCHEDULE INFECTIOUS DISEASES PART I-NOTIFIABLE INFECTIOUS DISEASES Section A-Infectious Diseases Notifiable to Medical Officer of Health and Local Authority Pneumonic influenza. Anthrax. Cerebro-spinal fever (cerebro- Poliomyelitis. Relapsing fever. spinal meningitis). Salmonella infections. Cholera. Septicaemic influenza. Cysticercosis. Smallpox (variola, including varioDiphtheria. loid and alastrim). Dysentery (amoebic and bacillary). Taeniasis. Encephalitis lethargica. Enteric fever (typhoid fever, para- Trachoma (granular conjunctivitis, granular ophthalmia, granutyphoid fever). lar eyelids). Fulminant influenza. Typhus. Infective hepatitis. Leptospiral infections. Undulant fever. Ornithosis (psittacosis). Yellow fever. Plague (bubonic or pneumonic). Section B-lnfectious Diseases Notifiable to Medical Officer of Hea,lth Leprosy. Puerperal infection involving any Ophthalmia neonatorum. form of sepsis, either generalised Pemphigus neonatorum, impetigo, or local, in or arising from the or pustular lesions of the skin of female genital tract within 14 the newborn infant. days of childbirth or abortion. Staphylococcal pneumonia or septicaemia of the newborn infant. PART II---oTIIER INFECTIOUS DISEASES Chickenpox (varicella) . Erysipelas. Gonorrhoea. Impetigo contagiosa. Influenza. Measles (morbilli) , and German measles (rubella). Mumps (epidemic parotitis). Pediculosis. Pneumonia (acute primary). Ringworm of the scalp (tinea tonsurans) . Scabies (itch). Streptococcal sore throat, including scarlet fever. Syphilis, and soft chancre. Whooping cough (pertussis)." This Act is administered in the Department of Health.