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Authority acting under the instructions of the Medical Officer
of Health, shall make such inquiries, and take such steps
as are necessary or desirable for investigating the source of
infection, for preventing the spread of infection, and for
removing conditions favourable to infection, and if a Medical
Practitioner is not in attendance on the patient, the Medical
Officer of Health shall also take such steps as are necessary
or desirable for ascertaining the nature of the case.
The Local Authority may provide or contract tor the
provision of medical assistance for the poorer inhabitants
of the District when suffering from either of the diseases above
mentioned :
Provided that nothing in this Article shall be deemed
to authorise a Medical Officer of Health or other Officer to
take any of the steps herein mentioned at any Institution other
than one belonging to the Local Authority, except with the
consent of the Managers of that Institution.
(3) The duties assigned to the Medical Officer of Health
by the Sanitary Officers (London) Order, 1891, or the Sanitary
Officers (outside London) Order, 1910, as the case may be,
shall be deemed to extend to and to include all action by the
Medical Officer of Health in the execution of these Regulations.
Notification not required in certain cases.
Article X.—Nothing in these Regulations shall be
deemed to require a notification to be transmitted to a Medical
Officer of Health in respect of an inmate of any building, ship,
vessel, boat, tent, van, shed, or similar structure belonging to
His Majesty the King.
Short Title.
Article XI.—These Regulations may be cited as "The
Public Health (Measles and German Measles) Regulations,
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SCARLET FEVER.
Four hundred and five cases were notified as due
to scarlet fever, against 954 in the prev1ious year.
Three hundred and seventy-five cases reported last year
were isolated at Isolation Hospitals, 1 at Kensington
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