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of Poplar Dispensary for the Prevention of Consumption;
London County Council and Payment of Uninsured Persons
attending at Dispensary; Treatment of Tuberculosis—
Local Scheme for Dispensary Treatment, Poplar—London
County Council; Treatment of Tuberculosis—Scheme for
London; Insurance Committee for the County of London
and Services of the Tuberculosis Officer; Deaths, Tubercular
Diseases and Phthisis—Numbers and Rates, see pages
36 and 38; Disinfection of Rooms and Articles, see page 124;
Milk and Dairies Act, see page 195.
Notifications.
Upon notification of a case (not private) of pulmonary tuberculosis
under the regulations, the premises are visited and a card is left containing
instructions to the patient and friends as to precautions to be
taken by them. As pitting cup and bottle are loaned where necessary.
See Sanitary Inspectors' and Miss Tattersall's reports (pages 237-274).
In private cases medical practitioners are communicated with.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912.
These regulations came into operation on the 1st February, 1913,
and revoked previous Regulations and all Local Government orders
made thereunder.
Notification by Medical Practitioners.
Article V. —Subject to the provisions of these Regulations every
Medical Practitioner (unless acting as a School Medical Inspector),
attending on or called in to visit any person (whether at an Institution
or otherwise), shall, within forty-eight hours after first becoming aware
that such person is suffering from Tuberculosis, make and sign a notification
of the case in Form A., and shall transmit the notification to the
Medical Officer of Health for the District within which the place of
residence of the person is situate at the date of notification :
Provided that a Medical Practitioner shall not notify a case of
Tuberculosis under this Article if he has reasonable grounds for believing
that the case has already been notified, either under this Order or under
the previous Regulations or otherwise, to the Medical Officer of Health
for the District within which the place of residence of the person is
situate:
Provided further that if a notification is required in pursuance of
this Article in respect of an in-patient at an Institution, the notification
shall be sent to the Medical Officer of Health for the District in which
the usual place of residence of the patient is situate.