Chapter 4 - Occupational health
Appendix 1 - List of notifiable diseases
The following are notifiable diseases. The list is not exhaustive and any cases of doubt should be checked with the OHA.
AIDS, ARC, PGL
Angina
Anorexia
Anxiety state
Acute Encephalitis
Anthrax
Arthritis
Asthma - unless in childhood
Bronchial asthma
Bulimia Nervosa
Cancer
Carcinoma in any organ
Cerebral haemorrhage
Cerebral Thrombosis
Cholera
Chronic Bronchitis
Coronary Thrombosis
Crohn's disease
Deafness
Depression - A single episode occurring more than 5 years ago can be ignored.
Depressive illness - A single episode occurring more than 5 years ago can be ignored.
Diabetes Mellitus
Diphtheria
Double vision
Dysentery (amoebic or bacillary)
Emphysema
Fibrocystic disease
Food Poisoning
Gastro-intestinal ulcers - if within 5 years
Glaucoma
Haemophilia
Heart attack
Heart transplant
Hemiplegia
High blood pressure
Hypertension
Ileitis
Ischaemic heart disease
Kidney failure/renal transplant
Lassa Fever
Leprosy
Leptospirosis
Leukaemia
Liver damage
Lumber disc lesion
Malaria
Malignancy
Manic depressive illness
Marburg Disease
Measles
Meningitis
Meningococcal Septicaemia (without meningitis)
Multiple Sclerosis
Mumps
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)
Myasthenia gravis
Myocardial Infarction
Nervous debility
Ophthalmia Neonatorum
Osteoarthritis
Paranoia
Paraplegia
Paratyphoid Fever
Plague
Poliomyelitis
Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome
Prolapsed intervertebral disc - if within 5 years
Pulmonary tuberculosis - if within 5 years
Rabies
Relapsing Fever
Renal Colic/Stones - if within 5 years
Retinopathy
Rheumatic heart disease
Rheumatoid Arthritis
Rubella
Scarlet Fever
Schizophrenia
Sciatica - if within 5 years
Slipped disc - if within 5 years
Smallpox
Spina Bifida
Stroke
Systematic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
Tetanus
Tuberculosis
Typhoid Fever
Typhus
Ulcerative Colitis
Vertigo
Viral Haemorrhagic Fever
Viral Hepatitis
Whooping Cough
Yellow Fever
