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amongst persons under the care of District Medical Officers, and for the
taking of certain measures in such cases.
The Order came in force on the 1st January, 1909. Poor Law
District Medical Officers and Medical Officers of Poor Law Institutions
are required to send a notification to the Medical Officer of Health of
the district in which a consumptive patient is (or was before admission
to an institution) resident, within 48 hours after recognition of the
symptoms. The Superintending Officer of an institution is required to
send a notification of the actual or intended place of destination and
address at that place of any consumptive person leaving such institution,
and Relieving Officers are required to notify changes of address of
patients other than to an institution. Four sets of forms have been
prepared for the above purpose.
Form A is for the notification of a person in a Poor Law Institution.
Form B. of a person in a district. Form C is the notice that a notified
person has left a Poor Law Institution. Form D, of the change of
address of a notified person in a district.
As some of the provisions of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891
relative to infectious disease are not usually appropriate in cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis, the Board have provided by Article IX (1) that
nothing in the regulations shall have effect so as to apply or to authorise
anyone, directly or indirectly, to put in force with respect to a person in
relation to whom a notification has been made any enactment which
renders him or any other person liable to a penalty or subjects him to
any restriction, prohibition, or disability affecting him or his employment,
occupation, means of livelihood, or residence on the ground of his
suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
Subject to what is stated in the preceding paragraph, 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
infectious material, produced and discharged, as a result of
pulmonary tuberculosis; and otherwise for the prevention of the
spread of infection from any such material;