Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988

The Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations 1988, 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.

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.