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Article X. Provides that all expenses incurred by a Board of
Guardians, a Joint Committee, or Board of Managers, in pursuance
of these Regulations, shall be defrayed as part of their establishment
expenses under the Acts relating to the relief of the poor.
Article XI. Provides that any question or difference arising
in relation to any subject, matter of, or anything done under these
Regulations, shall be determined on application by the Local
Government Board.
Article XII. Provides for certain modifications in areas
where Local Acts containing provisions with respect to pulmonary
tuberculosis are in force.
Article XIII. Gives the title to the Regulations, viz.:
"The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908."
CHILDREN'S ACT, 1908.
Part I deals with Infant Life Protection, and provides that a
person who undertakes for reward the nursing and maintenance of
one or more infants under seven years of age shall, within fortyeight
hours, notify in writing the fact to the Local Authority and
shall again notify on change of residence. Such person shall also
notify, within the same period, to the Local Authority, its removal
from the care of such person. On the death of any such infant
notice must also be given within twenty-four hours to the Coroner.
A person having charge of any infant must have no interest in the
life of the child for the purposes of the Life Assurance Act, 1774,
and it will be an offence under the Act for such person directly
or indirectly to attempt to insure the life of such infants. Every
local authority must make inquiries within its district of persons
who undertake the nursing and maintenance of infants and appoint
Infant Protection Visitors to visit the infants so nursed and
maintained. Local Authorities may combine for the purpose of
executing the provision of the first part of this Act and for defraying
the expenses thereof. The Local Authority may exempt from
visitation any premises which appear to them to be properly