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Credit: Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Act, 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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![CHAPTER 56. An Act to prevent the spread and provide for the A-D-19Q8* treatment of Tuberculosis; and for other purposes connected therewith. [21st December 1908.] BE it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows Paet I. Notification and Disinfection, 1.—(1) If any medical practitioner attending on any person, Notification, within any district to which this Part of this Act extends, becomes aware that that person is suffering in any prescribed circum- stances from tuberculosis of any prescribed form, or at any prescribed stage, the medical practitioner shall within seven days after he becomes aware of the fact send to the medical officer of health a certificate in the prescribed form and containing the prescribed particulars. (2) The Local Government Board, after consulting with the President of the Royal College of Physicians in Ireland and the President of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, shall from time to time by Order prescribe the forms and stages of tuber- culosis to which, and the circumstances in which, this section shall apply, but no forms of tuberculosis shall he so prescribed save such as by reason of infective discharges are liable to communicate the disease to other persons. (3) Any certificate required to be sent to a medical officer of health under this section may be sent either by delivering it to](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22417424_0005.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
