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PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1908.
Local Government Board,
Whitehall, S.W.,
18th December, 1908.
Sir,
I am directed by the Local Government Board to state that
they have had under consideration the desirability of affording
facilities for the extension of administrative action for the
prevention of tuberculosis, and that with this view they have
issued an Order in pursuance of Section 130 of the Public
Health Act, 1875, as amended and extended by the Public
Health (London) Act, 1891, and the Public Health Act, 1896,
to provide for the notification to the Medical Officers of Health
of Sanitary Authorities of cases of pulmonary tuberculosis
occurring amongst the inmates of Poor Law Institutions, or
amongst persons under the care of District Medical Officers,
and for the taking of certain measures in such cases.
Notification by Medical Officers of Poor Law Institutions.
Article IV. of the Order directs that the Medical Officer of
a Poor Law Institution, as defined by Article I., shall, within
48 hours after his first recognition of the symptoms of
pulmonary tuberculosis in the case of a poor person who is an
inmate of the institution, post to the Medical Officer of Health
for the Sanitary district in which the person resided immediately
before he became an inmate of the institution a
notification of the case.
The notification must be made on a printed form as set
out in the Schedule to the Order.
Notification by District Medical Officfrs.
Article V. directs that a similar notification shall be posted
to the Medical Officer of Health by the District Medical Officer
in the case of any poor person suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis on whom he is in medical attendance according to
his agreement with a Board of Guardians.
The notification must be posted within 48 hours after the
District Medical Officer has first recognised the symptoms of
pulmonary tuberculosis, and must be addressed to the Medical
Officer of Health acting for the sanitary district in which the
residence of the poor person is situate.