Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908.

  • Great Britain. Local Government Board.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908. 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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    'A Circular—Councils of^etropolitauJM^ othet^Bcu'Oughs, and of Urban nnd-fturod Distrlt^ ^ % oO JAK 09 St-H- PUBLIC HEALTH ^TU^JIRCULOSIS) REGU- LATIONS, 1908. Local Government Board, Whitehall, S.W. 18th December, 1908. Sir, I AM directed by the Local Government Board to state that they have had under consideration the desirability of affording facilities for the extension of administrative action for the prevention of tuberculosis, and that with this view they have issued an Order in pursuance of Section 130 of the Public Health Act, 1875, as amended and extended by the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Public Health Act, 1896, to provide for the notification to the Medical Officers of Health of Sanitary Authorities of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis occurring amongst the inmates of Poor Law Institutions, or amongst persons under the care of District Medical Officers, and for the taking of certain measures in such cases. Notification by Medical Officers of Poor Law Listitutious. Article lY. of the Order directs that the Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution, as defined by Article I., shall, within 48 hours after his first recognition of the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis in the case of a poor person who is an inmate of the institution, post to the Medical Officer of Health for the sanitary district in which the person resided immediately before he became an inmate of the institution a notification of the case. The notification must be made on a printed form as set out in the Schedule to the Order. Notification by District Medical Officers. Article V. directs that a similar notification shall be posted to the Medical Officer of Health by the District Medical Officer in the case of any poor person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis on whom he is in medical attendance according to his agreement with a Board of Guardians. The notification must be posted within 48 hours after the District Medical Officer has first recognised the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis, and must be addressed to the Medical Officer of Health acting for the sanitary district in which the residence of the poor person is situate. Notification by Superintending Officers of Poor Law Institutions. Under Article VI. it will be the duty of the Superintending Officer of a Poor Law Institution to post to the Medical Officer of Health on a printed form as set out in the Schedule to the Order a notification of the actual or intended place of destination and address at that place of any person leaving the institution in respect of whom a notification has been made by the Medical Officer of the institution under Article IV. [Pnee IfZ.] 600 Wt 44 1/00 D & S 9 0