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These latter regulations complete the system of notification
which was inaugurated in 1908, and relate to cases in Poor
Law practice, and afterwards increased by the Public Health
(Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations, 1911.
They make it the duty of every Medical Practitioner, with
certain exceptions, to notify every case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
either in his public or private practice. For each case
notified the medical man is entitled to a fee of 2s. 6d.
OBJECT OF NOTIFICATION.
That the Council may assist in the eradication of this
disease, being enabled to take action in individual cases with
a view to preventing the spread of infection and removing
conditions favourable to infection.
FINANCE.
To assist this organised scheme, the Finance and National
Insurance Bill makes provision for the sanatorium treatment
of insured persons, and in some cases to dependents of the
insured.
DUTIES OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH.
1. To transmit to the proper authorities all notifications
addressed to him in error, and to inform the notifying practitioner
that he has done so.
2. To keep a register of all cases notified, and to enter
therein the name and address, age, sex, date of notification,
medical man, and the action taken by the Medical Officer of
Health in regard to each patient.
3. To keep a separate record of the probable factors concerned
in producing the disease, existence of disease in persons