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Medical Officer of Health or a Council, or any other person or
authority, directly or indirectly, to put in force with respect to any
patient in relation to whorrt a notification in pursuance of these
Regulations has been transmitted to a Medical Officer of Health,
any enactment which renders the patient, or a person in charge of the
patient, or any other person, liable to a penalty, or subjects the
patient to any restriction, prohibition, or disability affecting himself,
or his employment, occupation, or means of livelihood, on the ground
of his suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
A School Medical Inspector is required to notify all cases of
Pulmonary Tuberculosis of which he becomes aware in the course of
an inspection held by him at a public elementary school or elsewhere,
and valuable results may be anticipated from the co-operation of
Sanitary and Local Education Authorities. In many instances it will
be practicable for the Medical Officer of Health to acquaint the
School Medical Inspector with th'e names of children coming from
houses in'which cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis have been notified.
The latter will then be able to pay special attention to such children
at his periodical inspections, and to call them up for inspection more
frequently than would otherwise be the case, thus supplementing any
action taken by the Sanitary Authority.
The Medical Officer of Health is required to keep a register of "ill
cases of Pulmonary Tuberculosis notified to him under the regulations
in force, and relating to patients whose residences are situate within
the area f^r which he is Medical Officer of Health. In this register
he must enter the name, address, age, and sex of the person notified,
the date of the notification, and the name of the notifying practitioner.
It will be convenient for the register to contain also a statement of
any action taken by the Medical Officer of Health in regard to the
patierit. It is suggested that he will also find it desirable to keep a
separate record of all particulars bearing on the probable factors concerned
in producing the disease, on the existence of the disease in
persons in contact witth the patient, and on action taken to obviate
infection, to remove insanitary conditions, and to aid the patient himself
or any additional patients who may be discovered.
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