Public health, England and Wales : the public health (infective jaundice) regulations 1968.

  • United Kingdom
Date:
1968
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Credit: Public health, England and Wales : the public health (infective jaundice) regulations 1968. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Section 159 (Provision as to use of public conveyances by persons suffering from notifiable disease) Section 160 (Duty of owner, &c. of public conveyance in regard to cases of ; notifiable disease) Section 164 (Avoidance of contact with body of person who suffered from notifiable disease) Section 165 (Wake not to be held over body of person who suffered from notifiable disease) Section 169 (Provision for removal to hospital of persons suffering from notifiable disease where serious risk of infection being spread) Section 170 (Power of justice to order detention in hospital of infected person without proper lodging to return to) Public Health Act 1961 Section 38 (Power of justice to order a medical examination) Section 39 (Information to be furnished by occupier in case of notifiable disease or food poisoning) Section 40 (Exclusion of children from places of entertainment or assembly) Section 41 (Compensation for stopping employment to prevent spread of disease) Part II SECTION 144 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH AcT 1936, as MoDIFIED 144.—(1) When an inmate of any building used for human habitation is suffering from infective jaundice, every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit that inmate (in this section referred to as “the patient’) shall, as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is so suffering, send to the medical officer of health of the district in which the building is situated a certificate in the form set out in ‘schedule 2 to the Public Health (Infective Jaundice) Regulations 1968. (2) Any medical practitioner who fails to send a certificate which he is required by this section to send shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten pounds, unless he satisfies the court that he believed, and had reasonable grounds for believing, that a certificate in respect of the patient had been duly sent by another medical practitioner. (3) If a medical officer of health of a district receives a certificate under this section in respect of a person living in the district but ordinarily resident in another district, he shall forthwith send a copy of that certificate to the medical officer of health of that other district.
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