Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report on the sanitary condition and vital statistics during the year 1908 together with the report of the Chief Sanitary Inspector
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tion) of a person in respect of whom a notification has been made
under Article V. by a District Medical Officer.
The notification must be made on a printed form as set out in
the Schedule to the Order, and must be sent to the Medical Officer
of Health for the sanitary district in which the address to which the
person moves is situate.
The notification must be posted within 48 hours after the
Relieving Officer has obtained accurate information respecting the
change of residence.
Remuneration to be allowed.
Provision is made by Article VIII. for the remuneration of the
Officers who have to make notifications under the Order. In the
case of the Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution or a District
Medical Officer, the remuneration will be at the rate of one shilling
for every notification, but where in relation to any one case two or
more notifications have been posted by the Medical Officer to the
same Medical Officer of Health, his remuneration will be at the
rate of sixpence for every such notification after the first.
In the case of a Superintending Officer of a Poor Law Institution
or a Relieving Officer, the remuneration will be at the rate of
threepence for every notification.
The remuneration will be payable by the Council of the sanitary
district for which the Medical Officer of Health acts, it will be
deemed to cover the cost of postage, and it will be payable in the
manner and subject to the conditions prescribed by the Article.
Supply of Forms.
It will be the duty of the Poor Law Authorities referred to in
Article 111. to supply to the officers concerned printed copies of the
appropriate forms set forth in the Schedule to the Order.
Exception and Application of Enactments.
Some of the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875 and of
the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, relative to infectious disease