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2. A Local Authority on the advice of their Medical Officer
of Health may provide and publish or distribute suitable summaries
of information and instruction respecting tuberculosis, and
the precautions to be taken against the spread of infection from
that disease.
Certain special duties are also imposed by these Regulations
on Medical Officers of Health, as follows:—
Duties of Medical Officers of Health.
Article XI.—1. A Medical Officer of Health on receipt of a
notification which has been erroneously addressed to him by a
medical practitioner, shall forthwith transmit the notification to
the Medical Officer of Health, to whom the notification ought, in
pursuance of these Regulations, to have been addressed, and
shall at the same time inform the medical practitioner that he
has done so, and shall give to him the name and address of the
Medical Officer of Health to whom the notification has been sent.
2. Every Medical Officer of Health shall cause to be entered
in a Register to be kept by him for that purpose the full particulars
contained in every notification received by him under these
Regulations and relating to a person whose place of residence or
place of destination is situate within the district for which he is
Medical Officer of Health. The said Register shall be kept in the
custody of the Medical Officer of Health and shall not be open to
inspection by any person other than a person specially authorised
by resolution of the Local Authority, the Medical Officer of Health
for the Administrative County within which the district is situate,
a School Medical Inspector for any atea within which the district
is situate, or an officer of any Government Department authorised
in that respect by that Department.
Every notification and every document relating to a person
notified under these Regulations shall be regarded by the Medical
Officer of Health, and by every person who has access thereto, as
confidential.