Environmental health

There are 30 diseases that must legally be reported to Medway Council. These are known as notifiable diseases and they include:

• dysentery;
• tuberculosis (TB);
• rubella;
• scarlet fever;
• salmonella and other food poisoning.

The council's food and safety team is responsible for investigating the source and controlling the spread of notifiable and some non-notifiable diseases.

People who may be suffering from one of these are advised to contact their GP, who may then take a faecal specimen for diagnosis. The results of this will then be formally notified to the food and safety team, who may then contact them. Workers in food-handling environments are obliged to report any food poisoning illness to their employers. Contact the food and safety team for people in certain risk groups, such as:

• children aged less than five who attend nurseries, playgroups etc.;
• people with learning disablities or special needs;
• health care workers who have direct contact with patients or their food.

Please send one of these online forms to Medway Council to report:

• a notifiable disease;
• some other infectious disease.

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