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Miscellaneous Matters.
Conferences.
The Council were officially represented at the undermentioned
Conferences dealing with matters within the purview of the Public
Health Department.
Conference.
Royal Sanitary Institute,
Bournemouth —26th to 29th
April.
National Association for the
Prevention of Tuberculosis,
London —21st to 25th June.
Central Consultative Committee
on the Welfare of
Old People, London—Bth
July.
Sanitary Inspectors' Association,
Scarborough—l3th to
16th September.
National Smoke Abatement
Society, Bournemouth —
28th to 30th September.
Delegates.
Cllr. C. E. Lang and the Medica
Officer of Health.
Cllr. Mrs. E. A. Cooper, J.P-
Cllrs. Mrs. C. M. Davis
Mrs. E. Reynolds.
Ald. S. E. Paul and Mr. W-
Selway, Sanitary Inspector.
Cllr. Mrs. E. A. Cooper,
and Mr. I. R. Lewis, Sanitary
Inspector.
Aged and Infirm Persons.
Under Section 47 of the National Assistance Act, 1948, the
are empowered to apply to a Court of Summary Jurisdiction for
Order for the removal to a hospital or other suitable place of any P erS °g j
who is aged or infirm or suffering from some grave chronic dise^s: •
and is living under insanitary conditions. This power is
on the certificate of the Medical Officer of Health.
Seven clear days' notice of the intention of making an app lica tion
to the Court must be given to the person concerned, or to some
person in charge of him. The Order remains operative for a period
of three months, but the Court may, on application by the Coun cil
extend it for such further periods, not exceeding three months each, as
are considered necessary.
The procedure under Section 47, as outlined above, was amendded
by the National Assistance (Amendment) Act, 1951, which came into
operation on the Ist September, 1951, for the purpose of enabling very
urgent cases to be dealt with more expeditiously. This new Act provides
that the Court, or a single Justice of the Peace, may, on the certicates
of the Medical Officer of Health and another registered medical practioner
Make an Order without formal notice of the application having
been given to the person concerned or to the hospital authority, subj ect.
in the case of the latter, to evidence being produced of their
to admit the person. The length of time a person may be detained
under such an Order is limited to three weeks, instead of three nio nt j (1
and any application for an extension of this period must be
accordance with the procedure laid down in Section 47. An application
under the new Act may be made by the Medical Officer of Health.
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