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Poplar 1910

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]

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medical officer and authorised persons had been substituted therein for
the medical officer and persons authorised by him and as if the
corporation had been substituted therein for the Council.
Agreements between Council and sanitary authorities for purposes of this
Part of Act.
38. The Council and any sanitary authority may make and carry
into effect agreements and arrangements for or with respect to the
cleansing of the person or clothing of any person under this Part of this
Act and for the use by the Council for the purpose of effecting such
cleansing of any premises or appliances adapted for such purpose and
belonging to or used by such sanitary authority.
Examination and cleansing of females to be effected by medical
practitioner or female only.
39. The examination or cleansing of females under this Part of this
Act shall only be effected either by a person duly qualified as a medical
practitioner or by a female person duly authorised as herein-before
provided.
Regulations as to this Part of Act.
40.—(1) It shall be lawful for the Council to make regulations with
respect to the mode of carrying into effect the provisions of this Part of
this Act.
(2) No such regulations shall be of any force or effect unless or
until the same shall have been submitted to and confirmed by the Local
Government Board.
Children Act, 1908.
Cleansing of Verminous children.
122.—(1) A local education authority may direct their medical
officer, or any person provided with and, if required, exhibiting the
authority in writing of their medical officer, to examine in any public
elementary school, provided or maintained by the authority, the person
and clothing of any child attending the school, and, if on examination
the medical officer, or any such authorised person as aforesaid, is of
opinion that the person or clothing of any such child is infested with
vermin or is in a foul or filthy condition, the local education authority
may give notice in writing to the parent or guardian of, or other perso