The following named diseases are declared to be notifiable, communicable and dangerous to the public health:
Anthrax
Botulism
Chancroid
Chickenpox
Cholera, Asiatic
Diphtheria
Dysentery, amoebic and bacillary
Encephalitis, epidemic
German measles
Gonorrhea
Infectious hepatitis
Influenza
Leprosy
Malaria
Measles
Meningococcus meningitis
Mumps
Ophthalmia neonatorum
Paratyphoid fever
Pellagra
Plague
Pneumonia (all forms)
Poliomyelitis
Psittacosis
Rabies
Rheumatic fever
Rheumatic heart disease
Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Scarlet fever
Septic sore throat
Smallpox
Syphilis
Tetanus
Trachoma
Trichinosis
Tuberculosis
Tularemia
Typhoid fever
Typhus fever
Undulant fever
Whooping cough
Other communicable diseases during an epidemic
All occupational or industrial diseases
(Code 1953, § 8.3)