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The Order, which is entitled the Public Health (Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1911, completes the administrative machinery
necessary for the notification to the Medical Officer of Health,
as far as practicable, of all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis as soon
as they are observed. It requires that, as from 1st January,
1912, all cases of pulmonary tuberculosis upon which a medical
practitioner is in attendance must be notified by him within
48 hours of his first diagnosis of the cases as such to the Medical
Officer of Health of the district in which the patient is residing.
Articles IV. and V. of the Order deal specially with the
duties of medical practitioners and their remuneration. The
notifications must be made in the prescribed Form A set forth in
the schedule to the Order.
With regard to such cases of pulmonary tuberculosis as you
observe, who reside within the district of this Council, the
notification should be sent to the Public Health Offices, Metropolitan
Borough of Poplar, Bow Road, E. (corner of Fairfield
Road). A fee of 2s. 6d. for every case of pulmonary tuberculosis
notified is payable by the Council of the area within which the
address of the patient as given on the notification is situated.
You will receive from the Medical Officer of Health, in every
case in which the address of the patient is not within his district,
a notice informing you to which Medical Officer of Health the
notification has been transferred. In such cases it is suggested
that a record of the transfer should be made in order that you may
readily be enabled to claim the fee from the Council from whom it
is due.
In accordance with the provisions of the Order, I transmit to
you a supply of the notification Form A. A further supply will be
sent upon application.
The notification has attached to it duplicate counterfoils,
which are drawn up to simplify the further proceedings. When
notice is received that a notification has been transferred to
another Medical Officer of Health, a memorandum should be made
in the space provided on the counterfoils, so that the fee may be
claimed from the proper Council.
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