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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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![advised under the sanitary Acts, so far as such proceedings relate to conditions dangerous or injurious to healthy and also an account of the supervision exercised by him, or on his advice, for sanitary purposes over places and houses that the sanitary authority has power to regulate, with the nature and results of any proceedings which may have been so required and taken in respect of the same during the year. It shall also record the action taken by him, or on his advice, during the year, in regard to offensive trades, bake- houses, and workshops. (15) He shall give immediate information to the Local Government Board of any outbreak of dangerous epidemic disease within the district, and shall transmit to the Board, on forms to be provided by them, a quarterly return of the sickness and deaths within the district, and also a copy of' each annual and of any special report. (16) In matters not specifically provided for in this order, he shall observe and execute, so far as the circumstances of the district may require, the instructions of the Local Govern- ment Board on the duties of medical officers of health, and all the lawful orders and directions of the sanitary authority applicable to his office. (17) Whenever the Diseases' Prevention Act of 1855 is in force within the district, he shall observe the directions and regulations issued under that Act by the Local Government Board, so far as the same relate to or concern his office. (18) [Omitted in Urbaji.'] Where more than one medical officer of health shall be appointed by a sanitary authority, such authority, with the approval of the Local Government Board, may either assign to each of the officers a portion of the district, or may distribute the duties of medical officer of health amongst such officers. Section V.—Remuneration. Article I.—The sanitary authority or authorities, as the case may be, shall pay to any officer appointed under this order such salary or remuneration as may be approved by the Local Government Board ; and where such officer is appointed for two or more districts, the salary shall be](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21931732_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
