The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988 (SI 1988/1546), created by the Department of Health and Social Care, came into force on 1 October 1988 and was associated with the previous Public Health (Control of Disease) Act 1984. 24 more diseases were added, indicating exact control powers that could be applied to individual diseases. The regulations also revoked the previous Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1985 (SI 1985/434).
Notifiable diseases In addition to cholera, plague, relapsing fever, smallpox, typhus and food poisoning, the regulations of 1988 consist of 24 additional conditions:
Acute encephalitis Acute poliomyelitis Meningitis Meningococcal septicaemia Anthrax Diphtheria Dysentery Paratyphoid fever Typhoid fever Viral hepatitis Leprosy Leptospirosis Measles Mumps Rubella Whooping cough Malaria Tetanus Yellow fever Ophthalmia neonatorum Rabies Scarlet fever Tuberculosis Viral haemorrhagic fever
Scotland and Northern Ireland required notification of chicken pox and legionellosis in addition to the above.
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