Infectious diseases

For the purposes of this Act, "Infectious diseases" means Infectious diseases—

1. (a) anthrax,
2. (b) cerebro-spinal meningitis,
3. (c) chicken-pox,
4. (d) cholera,
5. (e) diphtheria,
6. (f) dysentery (bacillary an amoebic),
7. (g) ancephalitis lethargica,
8. (h) epidemic influenzal pneumonia,
   • (i) enteric group of fevers, viz., typhoid, paratyphoid, A, B, C, fevers,
9. (j) leprosy,
10. (k) measles,
11. (l) mumps,
12. (m) plague,
13. (n) puerperal fever,
14. (o) relapsing fever,
15. (p) scarlet fever,
16. (q) smallpox,
17. (r) tuberculosis of lungs, typhus,
18. (t) undulant fever,
19. (u) whooping cough,
    • (v) acute poliomyelitis,
20. (w) rabies, or any other disease which the State Government may, from time to time, by notification, declare to be an infectious disease, either generally throughout the [State] or in such part or parts thereof as may be specified in the notification.