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PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
Prior to the year 1912 cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
were notifiable under the following Regulations:—
The Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908
(which required the notification of cases of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis coming under the notice of certain Poor Law
Officers);
The Public Health (Tuberculosis in Hospitals) Regulations,
1911, which came into force on May 1st, 1911, and
require the notification of cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis
in attendance at hospitals, dispensaries, sanatoria, and
similar institutions.
At the end of 1911 the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1911, were issued by the Local Government Board,
and came into operation on January 1st, 1912.
These latter regulations make it the duty of a medical
practitioner to notify every case of Pulmonary Tuberculosis in
his private or public practice.
The following are among the duties cast upon the
Medical Officer of Health under the Regulations:—
To transmit to the proper authorities all notifications
addressed to him in error, and to inform the person notifying
that he has done so.
To keep a register of all cases notified, and to enter
therein the full particulars contained in every notification,
and a statement of the action taken in regard to the patient.
To make such enquiries and to take such steps as may
appear to him necessary or desirable for preventing the
spread of infection and for removing conditions favourable
to infection.