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THE PREVENTION OF CONSUMPTION.
Public Health Tuberculosis Regulations, 1908.*
The Local Government Board for affording facilities for the extension
of administrative action for the prevention of tuberculosis issued an Order
on the 18th December in pursuance of Section 130 of the Public Health
Act, 1875, as amended and extended by the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, and the Public Health Act, 1896, to provide for the notification
to the Medical Officer of Health of Sanitary Authorities of cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis occurring amongst the inmates of Poor Law
Institutions, or amongst persons under the care of District Medical
Officers, and for the taking of certain measures in such cases.
Notification by Medical Officers of poor Law Institutions.
Article IV. of the Order directs that the Medical Officer of a Poor Law
Institution, as defined by Article I., shall within 48 hours after his first
recognition of the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis in the case of a
poor person who is an inmate of the institution, post to the Medical
Officer of Health of the sanitary district in which the person resided
immediately before he became an inmate of the institution a notification
of the case.
The notification must be made on a printed form as set out in the
Schedule to the Order.
Notification by District Medical Officers.
Article V. directs that a similar notification shall be posted to the
Medical Officer of Health by the District Medical Officer in the case of
any poor person suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis on whom he is
in medical attendance according to his agreement with a Board of
Guardians.
The notification must be posted within 48 hours after the District
Medical Officer has first recognised the symptoms of pulmonary
tuberculosis, and must be addressed to the Medical Officer of Health
acting for the sanitary district in which the residence of the poor
person is situate.
• Under date February, 1909, the Medical Officer of the Local Government Board
has issued a memorandum on Administrative Measures against Tuberculosis.