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THE PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS)
REGULATIONS, 1908.
Regulations bearing the above title, and made by the
Local Government Board, came into force throughout England
and Wales on the 1st January, 1909.
The following is a brief summary of the Regulations:—
Article IV. directs that the Medical Officer of a Poor
Law Institution shall within 48 hours after his first
recognition of the symptons 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.
Article V. directs that a similar notification shall be
made by the District Medical Officers in respect of persons
upon whom he is in attendance.
Article VI. requires the Superintending Officer of a
Poor Law Institution to notify to the Medical Officer of
Health the actual or intended address of any person leaving
the institution in respect of whom a notification has been
made by the Medical Officer of the Institution under
Article IV.
Article VII. requires a Relieving Officer to notify to
the Medical Officer of Health any change of address (other
than by admission to a Poor Law Institution) of a person