Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Act, 1889. CHAPTER 72. An Act to provide for the Notification of Infectious Disease A-D 18b9- tcTDocal Authorities. [30th August 1889.] BE it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows : 1. This Act may be cited as the Infectious Disease (Notification) short title. Act, 1889. 2. This Act shall extend— {a) to every London district after the expiration of two months Extent of from the passing of this Act, and Act‘ (b) to any urban, rural, or port sanitary district after the adoption thereof. 3.—(1.) Where an inmate of any building used for human Notification habitation within a district to which this Act extends is suffering °f mtectl0U8 ... . . . ° disease. from an infectious disease to which this Act applies, then, unless such building is a hospital in which persons suffering from an infectious disease are received, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say :— (a.) the head of the family to which such inmate (in this Act referred to as the patient) belongs, and in his default the nearest relatives of the patient present in the building or being in attendance on the patient, and in default of such relatives every person in charge of or in attendance on the patient, and in default of any such person the occupier of the building shall, as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is suffering from an infectious disease to which this Act applies, send notice thereof to the medical officer of health of the district :](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2241633x_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
