Report of the Joint Committee on State Medicine of the British Medical and Social Science Associations, on the report of the Royal Sanitary Commission.

  • Joint Committee on State Medicine of the British Medical and Social Science Associations.
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[1871]
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Credit: Report of the Joint Committee on State Medicine of the British Medical and Social Science Associations, on the report of the Royal Sanitary Commission. 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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    fectious disease or any dead body which is in such a state as to endanger the health of the inmates of the house or room in which it is retained. Any person failing to give any notice required by this section shall be liable to a penalty of any sum not exceeding £20, and if any owner or occupier of a house or tenement in which a person is ill of fever or any other infectious disease fail to send to the sanitary authority having jurisdiction over the area within which such house or tenement is situated, any certificate required by this section, such authority shall, on the certificate of its officer of health, or of any legally qualified medical practi- tioner, exercise the powers and do the things which a nuisance authority may now exercise and do on the certificate of a legally qualified medical practitioner. The guardians of any union, or the guardians of any two or more unions, and any sanitary authority, and any two or more sanitary authorities, may, with the approval of the Local Government Board, make mutual arrangements as to carrying into effect the foregoing provisions and any expenses incurred by such authorities in pur- suance of such arrangement shall be deemed to be expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties. If any sanitary authority fails to comply with the foregoing requisitions of this section, or makes default in the performance of any duty which it is bound to per- form in pursuance of the forty-ninth section of the Sanitary Act, 1866, as amended by this Act, the Local Government Board may, on the application of any ratepayer within the area, subject to the jurisdiction of the defaulting authority, or of any person aggrieved by such default, require the sanitary authority to remedy the de- fault complained of, and if it fails to do so within a specified period, may suspend all the powers of such authority in its character of sanitary authority and delegate to the County Board of the County in which the district, or the greater part in area of the district, is situate, or to any person or body of persons, the powers of such sani- tary authority until the default is remedied. Any body of persons to whom such powers may be delegated shall, if they are not a body corporate, be (incorf orated) a body corporate for the purposes of their establishment. The form of this notice should be such that medical men would be obliged to state the names of the infectious diseases attended by them, as well as their infectious character. Every sanitary authority should be required to make yearly returns to the Local Government Board as to the names of the diseases of which it has notice, their duration, etc. This would provide machinery for the registration of infectious diseases in private practice. These points were not befo e the General Committee of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association. F.—The following Tabular Statement, drawn up by Mr. Michael, is subjoined, though not adopted by the Committee, as clear and very suggestive. The italics itidicate the discrepancies between the Commission and t)te Joint Committee. REQUIREMENTS OF JOINT COMMITTEE. 1. Consolidation of existing sanitary laws. 2. Compulsory and uniform adminis- tration. 3. One local authority for every dis- trict. REPORT OF SANITARY COMMISSION. 1. Consolidation of existing sanitary laws (p. 3). 2. Compulsory and uniform adminis- tration (p. 3). 3. One local authority for every dis- trict. [N.B.—Professedly one, but really two. See preceding Report 13, 14.]