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The remuneration will be payable by the Council of the tanitary
district for which the Medical Officer of Health acts, it will be deemed
to cover the cost of postage, and it will be payable in the manner and
subject to the conditions prescribed by the Article.
Supply of Forms.
It will be the duty of the Poor Law Authorities referred to in
Article III. to supply to the officers concerned printed copies of the
appropriate forms set forth in the Schedule to the Order.
Exception and Application of Enactments and Special Powers
of Councils.
Some of the provisions of the Public Health Act, 1875, and of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, relative to infectious disease being not
appropriate in cases of pulmonary tuberculosis.
Article IX.—(1) Nothing in these Regulations shall have effect so as
to apply, or so as to authorise or require a Medical Officer of Health or a
Council, or any other person or authority, directly or indirectly to put in
force with respect to any poor person, in relation to whom a notification
in pursuance of these Regulations has been posted to a Medical Officer of
Health, any enactment which renders the poor person, or a person in
charge of the poor person, or any other person, liable to a penalty, or
subjects the poor person to any restriction, prohibition, or disability
affecting himself, or his employment, occupation, means of livelihood, or
residence, on the ground of his suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
(2) Subject as aforesaid, a Council, on the advice of their Medical
Officer of Health, in the case of a poor person in relation to whom a
notification in pursuance of these Regulations has been posted to the
Medical Officer of Health, may, for the purpose of preventing the spread
of infection from pulmonary tuberculosis :—
(i) take all such measures or do all such things as are authorised,
in any case of infectious disease, or of dangerous infectious
disease, by any enactment relating to public health, and
as have reference to the destruction and disinfection of
infected articles, or the cleansing or disinfecting of
premises;
(ii) take all such measures or do all such things as are appropriate
and necessary for the safe disposal or destruction of