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This increase reflects great credit on the efforts of our social workers particularly
when we bear in mind that many of our patients are seamen or transients who have been
infected abroad or in other parts of the country."
COMPENSATION FOR STOPPING EMPLOYMENT
Section 41 of the Public Health Act 1961 makes provision for a medical officer of health
to request any person to discontinue work with a view to preventing the spread of infectious
disease, such person to be compensated for any loss suffered as a consequence. It was found
necessary to take action this year in respect of a schoolteacher in whose family there were
confirmed cases of food poisoning, compensation of £16.16.1 being paid.
Food handlers excluded from work on account of suffering from infectious disease and for
which certificates were issued for the purpose of claiming National Insurance benefit numbered
11 during the year.
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