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Credit: Manual for medical officers of health / by Edward Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![ORDER OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOARD. The Regulations issued by the Local Government Board, dated November ii, 1872, define the duties of the medi- cal officer of health with more precision than had' been theretofore prescribed, and have incorporated many of the previous provisions with some of the suggestions contained in the Minute of the General Board of Health already referred to. The Order is as follows :— To the Guardians of the Poor of the Several Unions, Parishes^ and Places in England and Wales in which such Guardians act as a Rural \Urbaii\ Sa7iitary Authority, under the Public Health Act, 1872 : And to all others whotn it may cojicern: Whereas by Section 10 of the PubHc Health Act, 1872, it is enacted that it shall be the duty of every rural [urban] sanitary authority to appoint from time to time a medical officer or officers of health, being legally qualified prac- titioners ; and that the Local Government Board shall have the same powers as they have in the case of a district medical officer of a union, with regard to the qualification, appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of a medical officer of health, any portion of whose salary is paid out of moneys voted by Parliament: And whereas it is thereby further enacted, that the same person may, with the sanction of the Local Government Board, be appointed the medical officer of health for two or more sanitary districts, by the joint or several appointment of the sanitary authorities of such districts : Now we, the Local Government Board, deeming it ex- pedient that regulations should be made with respect to the qualification, appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office of medical officers of health, to be appointed by rural [urban] sanitary authorities, in all those cases where any](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21931732_0027.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
