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[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough]
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Weekly Notification by School Medical Inspectors.
Article VI. —Every School Medical Inspector shall, as soon as
practicable after the end of each week, make and sign a notification
in Form B. of all cases of Tuberculosis of which he has first become
aware in the course of inspections made by him during the week of
children attending Public Elementary Schools, and shall transmit the
notification to the Medical Officer of Health for the District within
which the places of residence of the children are situate. When the
places of residence are situate in more than one District, a separate
notification shall be transmitted to the Medical Officer of Health of
each District.
Weekly Notification by Medical Officers of Poor Law Institutions and
Sanatoria.
Article VII.—The Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution or of
a Sanatorium, shall, as soon as practicable after the end of each week—
(a) make and sign a notification in Form C. of all cases of
culosis admitted during the week and not being cases which
are required to be notified under Article V. of these Regulations,
and transmit the notification to the Medical Officer of Health
for the District within which the places of residence of the
persons notified are situate ; and
(b) make and sign a notification in Form D. of all cases of
culosis discharged during the week, other than cases transferred
to a poor Law Institution or a Sanatorium, and transmit the
notification to the Medical Officer of Health for the District
within which the places of destination of the persons notified
are situate.
When the places of residence, or the places of destination, as the
case may be, of the persons to be notified are situate in more than one
District a separate notification shall be transmitted to the Medical Officer
of Health of each District.