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COMMUNICABLE DISEASE

Statutory Notifications

Any Clinician suspecting an infectious disease is required by Law under the Isle of Man Public Health Act 1990 to notify the Public Health Directorate.

A Notifiable Diseases Notification Form should be completed stating diagnosis and this should be sent to:

The Proper Officer,
Public Health Directorate,
Crookall House,
Demesne Road,
Douglas,
Isle of Man,
IM1 3QA.
Tel: (01624) 642639
Fax: (01624) 642684

Please click here to send an email

Statutory Notifications are an important way of:

Notifiable Diseases
  1. Acute encephalitis
  2. Acute poliomyelitis
  3. Anthrax
  4. Cholera
  5. Diphtheria
  6. Dysentery
  7. Food poisoning
  8. Leprosy
  9. Leptospirosis
  10. Malaria
  11. Measles
  12. Meningitis (meningococcal, pneumococcal haemophilus influenzae viral, other specified unspecified)
  13. Meningococcal septicaemia (without meningitis)
  14. Mumps
  15. Ophthalmia neonatorum
  16. Paratyphoid fever
  17. Plague
  18. Rabies
  19. Relapsing fever
  20. Rubella
  21. Scarlet fever
  22. Smallpox
  23. Tetanus
  24. Tuberculosis (please contact Public Health for surveillance forms)
  25. Typhoid fever
  26. Typhus fever
  27. Viral haemorrhagic fever
  28. Viral hepatitis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B Hepatitis C, other
  29. Whooping cough
  30. Yellow fever

    If Measles, Mumps or Rubella is suspected. Public Health will contact the index case directly to organise a salivary antibody test for confirmation of the disease.

For further Public Health Information, please refer to the Public Health Act 1990.

This page was last updated on 27 August 2008.

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