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1909
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(b) The District Medical Officer shall make a similar notification to the
Medical Officer of Health in the case of any poor person who is suffering from
pulmonary tuberculosis.
(c) The Superintendent Officer of Poor Law Institutions shall post to
the Medical Officer of Health a notification of the actual or intended destination
and address of any person leaving the institution, who has previously been
notified as suffering from pulmonary phthisis.
(d) The Relieving Officers shall notify any change of address (other than
bv admission to a Poor Law Institution) of a poor person who has been previously
notified to the Medical Officer of Health by a District Officer.
These several notifications must be made to the Medical Officer of Health
within 48 hours, and on printed forms as set out in the Schedule of the Order,
and they are to be paid for by the Local Authority as follows:—
(a) To the Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution and to the Medical
Officer of a district, Is. for every notification, but, if two or more notifications
with respect to the same case are made to the same Medical Officer of Health,
the remuneration will be at the rate of Gd. for each notification after the first.
(b) To the Superintending Officer of a Poor Law Institution, 3d. for every
notification.
The notification forms are supplied by the Poor Law Authority.
The Order gives power to take such measures as are authorised in the case
of an infectious disease, namely the destruction and disinfection of infected
articles, such as the cleansing of the rooms or premises, but the Medical Officer
of Health or his Council are not authorised to enforce directly or indirectly
any enactment which renders the poor person or a person in charge of the poor
person liable to a penalty or to any restriction, prohibition, or disability affecting
himself or his employment, occupation, means of livelihood or residence on the
ground of his suffering from pulmonary phthisis.
The Order makes it legal for the Council to provide, publish, and distribute
placards, handbills, leaflets, and information and instructions respecting the
disease, and the precautions to be taken against the spread of infection from it.
In compliance with this Order, the following notifications were received
during the year:—