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1. Medical Officers of Poor Law Institutions to notify
cases occurring in their Institutions to Medical Officers of
Health of the district in which the sufferer resided previous to
admission to the Institution. (Notification Form A.)
2. District Medical Officers to report cases occurring
amongst persons visited by them under their agreement with
the Guardians. (Notification Form B.)
3. Superintendent Officers of Poor Law Institutions to
notify intended place of residence of persons leaving the
Institution who have been certified by the Medical Officer
thereof to be suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (Notification
Form C.)
4. Relieving Officers to notify change of addresses of
persons who have been reported by District Medical Officers to
be suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis. (Notification
Form D.)
On March 2nd, 1911, the Local Government Board issued
the Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations,
1911, which came into operation on May 1st. Under these
regulations notifications were received of all phthisical patients
attending hospitals, dispensaries, or similar Institutions.
Next we had, at the end of 1911, an order of the Local
Government Board, called the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1911, under which all cases of pulmonary phthisis
must be notified.
This order came into force on January 1st, 1912, and the
Board advised that the arrangements which were necessary to
facilitate the execution of the order should be made as soon as
possible.
These latter regulations made it the duty of every medical
practitioner, with certain exceptions, to notify every case of
pulmonary tuberculosis, either in his public or private practice;