Legally Infectious Diseases

Japanese: 法定伝染病 - ほうていでんせんびょう

Classification of infectious diseases under the old Infectious Diseases Prevention Law. Eleven types of infectious diseases: cholera, dysentery including dysentery (→ amoebic dysentery, bacterial dysentery), typhoid fever, paratyphoid fever, smallpox, typhus, scarlet fever, diphtheria, epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis, plague, and Japanese encephalitis. Doctors who diagnosed patients with these infectious diseases or examined their bodies were required to report them to the mayor of the city or town or the head of the health center in their jurisdiction (→ health center), and heads of households with infectious or suspected patients were also required to see a doctor and report them. Regulations also included isolating patients, disinfecting their belongings and homes, and testing family members or contacts. Today, measures are prescribed for these infectious diseases according to their classification under the Law on the Prevention of Infectious Diseases and Medical Care for Patients with Infectious Diseases.

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Japanese:

旧伝染病予防法による感染症の分類。コレラ，疫痢を含む赤痢（→アメーバ赤痢，細菌性赤痢），腸チフス，パラチフス，痘瘡，発疹チフス，猩紅熱，ジフテリア，流行性脳脊髄膜炎，ペスト，日本脳炎の 11種。これら感染症の患者を診断し，またはその死体を検案した医師は，市町村長あるいは管轄保健所長（→保健所）への届け出を義務づけられ，感染症またはその疑いのある患者が出た家の世帯主なども受診と届け出が課せられた。患者の隔離，所持品や住居などの消毒，家族ないし接触者の検査なども規定された。今日これらの感染症は，感染症の予防及び感染症の患者に対する医療に関する法律による分類に応じ，措置などが定められている。

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