Epidemics

• Epidemics are Public Health emergencies.?
  

• Infectious diseases are major causes of morbidity and mortality.
  
• The Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine declared following diseases as notifiable diseases. Click Here to have details of Notifiable Diseases

Control for Communicable Diseases :

• The control of communicable diseases is one of the major programmes under the Primary Health Care services, especially for the disease occurring in ep

  S.No	Diseases		S.No	Diseases
  1	Cerebrospinal fever		11	Typhoid/Enteric Fever
  2	Chicenpox		12	Tuberculosis
  3	Diptheria		13	Infectious Hepatitis
  4	Leprosy		14	Epidemic influenza
  5	Cholera		15	Whooping cough
  6	Measles		16	Virus Encephalitis
  7	Plague		17	Haemorragic fever
  8	Rabies		18	Malaria
  9	Scarlet fever		19	Tetanus
  10	Smallpox		20	Poliomyelitis
  			21	AIDS

  idemic forms.?
  

• Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases and suspected cholera are common among the water borne diseases.? Tamil Nadu is endemic for Acute Diarrhoeal Diseases with sporadic outbreak of cholera in most of the districts throughout the year, and in epidemic proportions during the rainy seasons and peak summer periods.?
  
• All the District Level officials and executive authorities of local bodies take necessary preventive measures including proper disposal of solid wastes and maintain sanitation and hygiene chlorinate all water sources and undertake fly control measures.

The following are the details of cases and deaths due to the ADD/Cholera in Tamil Nadu.

• The National Institute of Communicable Diseases, a premier Institution of the Director General of Health Services, Government of India, provide necessary technical support to the State and districts (Dharmapuri and Madurai) in the area of Man Power Training, Communication equipment's facilities and setting up of Laboratory services.

NATIONAL SURVEILLANCE PROGRAMME FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES IN? TAMILNADU

The objective of the programme is capacity building at District, Regional and State levels for disease surveillance and appropriate response to early warning signals of outbreaks of communicable diseases. The programme will be implemented by the state health authorities through the existing health infrastructure and surveillance system strengthened through training of the medical and paramedical personnel, upgradation of laboratories, communication and data processing systems.

National Surveillance Programme For Communicable Diseases has been launched in two? Revenue districts,?? Dharmapuri and Madurai during 1998-1999 in Tamil Nadu as per the guidelines of Government of India.

The above?? two districts have been selected by the Govt. of India based on the incidence of Dengue in Dharmapuri District and Leptospirosis in?? Madurai District.

As per the instructions of the NICD, Govt. of India, the following districts have been proposed under this programme for the years 2000-2001 and 2001-2002.?? The total No. of Revenue? districts under this programme will be five?? in Tamil Nadu.

??????????? 1.?? 1998-99?????? 1)? Dharmapuri,? 2) Madurai?? (already implemented)
??????????? 2.?? 2000-01?????? 1) Coimbatore??? 2) Salem
??????????? 3.?? 2001-02?????? 1)Villupuram

Industrial Hygiene and Health

The Water Analysis Laboratories established at Chennai and Coimbatore collect and examine water samples from various protected water sources to control pollution and contamination of drinking water.? These laboratories also assist the Tamil Nadu pollution control board in examining the samples of Industrial wastes and conduct field surveys to ensure the prevention and control of environmental and industrial pollution.

Air pollution surveys are also carried out around the industries to asses air quality.? Efforts are also taken for abatement of nuisance and classifying the industrial and residential areas.

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