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APPENDIX.
Public Health Department.
Municipal Buildings,
Battersea, S.W.
20th February, 1912.
To the Health Committee.
In accordance with the instructions of the Committee, I beg to
submit my report on the work in connection with the carrying out
of the Orders of the Local Government Board dealing with the
Compulsory Notification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. I propose, at
the same time, to deal with the letter of the Local Government Board
with regard to the rearrangement of the work of the Sanitary Staff,
rendered necessary by the new Regulations, and by the decision of
the Council to tentatively hold over the question of filling the
vacancy created by the resignation of Miss Fairbairn, Female Workshop
Inspector, in the early part of 1911.
The series of Orders dealing with Tuberculosis issued by the
Local Government Board with regard to the disease known as Pulmonary
Tuberculosis (consumption) began with the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, which came into operation on the
1st January, 1909. Under these Regulations a partial system of
Compulsory Notification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, dealing with
the inmates of Poor Law Institutions and persons under the care of
Poor Law Medical Officers, came into operation. This was followed,
in the early part of 1911, by the Public Health (Tuberculosis in
Hospitals) Regulations, 1911, which came into force on the 1st May,
1911, and provided for the notification of cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
occurring amongst the in-patients and out-patients at hospitals.
At the end of the year the series of Orders was completed
by the issue by the Board of the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1911, extending and to some extent supplementing
the partial compulsory systems already in force so as to include
all cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis occurring in the practice of
medical men. Under these Regulations it is now the duty of
every Medical Practitioner (with certain specified exceptions) to
notify every case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis occurring in the course
either of his public or his private practice.
It will be convenient here to briefly recapitulate the provisions
of the New Regulations:—
(i.) Every Medical Practitioner attending on or called in to
visit any person is to notify the Medical Officer of