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(2) That it shall be the duty of a Relieving Officer to
notify any change of address (other than admission to
a Poor Law Institution) of a person in respect of whom
a notification has been made by a District Medical
Officer, such notification to be posted within 48 hours
after the Relieving Officer has obtained accurate information
with respect to the change of residence.
The rate of remuneration under the Order is, for Medical
Officers of Poor Law Institutions, or District Medical Officers,
Is. for every notification, but when in relation to any
one case, two or more, notifications, have been posted by
the Medical Officer to the same Medical Officer of Health,
the remuneration will be at the rate of sixpence for every
such notification after the first notification; whilst, in the
case of all Superintending Officers of Poor Law Institutions,
or of Relieving Officers, the remuneration shall be at the
rate of threepence for every notification. The remuneration
is to be paid by the Council of the Sanitary District for which
the Medical Officer acts.
The object of this compulsory notification of Poor Law
patients is to enable the Medical Officer of Health, on behalf
of the Sanitary Authority, to take preventive measures
against the spread of the disease. The Local Government
Board has, however, stipulated that nothing in the Regulations
shall have effect so as to apply, or so as to authorise or
require anyone 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 himself or his employment, occupation, means
of livelihood, or residence, on the ground of his suffering
from pulmonary tuberculosis. Subject to this proviso, the
Hoard points out that it is desirable that Sanitary Authorities,
acting on the advice of their Medical Officers, should