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Article IV. Provides that the Medical Officer of a Poor Law
Institution shall, within 48 hours after his first recognition of the
symptoms of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in a poor person, an inmate of
the Poor Law Institution, notify particulars of the case as set
out in the Schedule to the Medical Officer of Health of the area in
which the poor person resided immediately before his admission to
the Poor Law Institution.
Article V. Provides that the District Medical Officers shall,
within 48 hours of first recognition of the symptoms of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis in a poor person, upon whom he is in medical attendance,
notify certain particulars as set out in the Schedule to
the Regulations to the Medical Officer of Health for the area in
which the residence of the poor person is situate.
Article VI. Provides that the Superintending Officer of a
Poor Law Institution shall, within a period of 48 hours after the
departure of a poor person from a Poor Law Institution in which he
has been an inmate, and in relation to whose case the Medical
Officer of such Institution has, in pursuance of Article IV, posted a
notification to the Medical Officer of Health, as far as he is able,
notify the actual or intended place of destination and address of the
poor person, in accordance with Form C in the Schedule, to the
Medical Officer of Health of the area in which the place is situate.
Article VII. Provides that a Relieving Officer, within
48 hours after having obtained accurate information of change
of address of a poor person residing in his relief district, in relation
to whose case a District Medical Officer has, in pursuance of
Article V. sent a notification to a Medical Officer of Health, shall
notify in accordance with Form D in the schedule such change of
address to the Medical Officer of Health for the area in which the
changed residence of the poor person is situate.
Article VIII. Gives instructions as to the filling in of particulars
in the counterfoil attached to each notification form, and
determines the remuneration to be paid to the several officers whose