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Hammersmith 1924

Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health of the Borough of Hammersmith for the year 1924

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year, commencing with the year 1925, with a return showing
the number of notified cases of tuberculosis in the County
Borough at the end of the year.
The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924,
dated December 18, 1924, made by the Minister of
Health.
69,551.
Whereas by the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations,
1912, (a) (hereinafter referred to as " the Regulations of
1912 "), the Public Health (Notification of Infectious Disease)
Regulations, 1918, (b) and the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1921, (c) Regulations were prescribed with a
view to the treatment of persons affected with Tuberculosis,
and for preventing the spread of the disease, and for the
notification of the prescribed particulars of cases of the
disease to the prescribed Medical Officer of Health;
And whereas it is expedient that the said Regulations
should be amended in manner following :
Now, therefore, the Minister of Health, in the exercise of
the powers conferred upon him by the several Statues in that
behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations; that is to
say:—
1. These Regulations may be cited as " The Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1924 and shall come into
operation on the 1st day of January, 1925, and shall be read
as one with the Regulations of 1912 and the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1921.
2. Every Medical Officer of Health shall furnish the
Medical Officer of Health of the Administrative County
within which his District is situate, as soon as practicable
after the end of each quarter, with a Statement, compiled
from the Register of Notifications required to be kept by him
by Article XI of the Regulations of 1912, and showing—
(а) The number of cases of tuberculosis on his register
at the commencement of the quarter;
(б) The number of cases notified to him under the
Regulations of 1912 for the first time during the
quarter;
(c) The number of cases removed from the register
during the quarter (giving the name and address of
each such case, and the reason for such removal) ;
and