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much thereof as is specified in the Order, shall cease to apply to the area, or
shall apply to the area with such modifications as are specified in the Order.
Short Title.
Article XV.—These Regulations may be cited as " the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911."
Given under the Seal of Office of the Local Government Board, this
Fifteenth day of November, in the year One thousand nine hundred
and eleven.
John Burns,
President.
H. C. Monro,
Secretary.
NOTE.
The Public Health Act 1896, Section 1, Sub-Section 3, provides as follows :—
(3) If any person wilfully neglects or refuses to obey or carry out, or
obstructs the execution of, any regulation made under Section one hundred and
thirty or Section one hundred and thirty-four of the Public Health Act, 1875,
or in pursuance of either of those Sections as extended to London by the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891, and as amended by this Act, he shall be
liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds, and in case of a continuing
offence to a further penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for even' day
during which the offence continues; and any such penalty, if not recovered
under the provisions of the Acts relating to Public Health, shall be recoverable
by action on behalf of the Crown in the High Court.
Extract from Circular Letter of Local Government Board,
Dated 16th November, 1911.
Powers and Duties of Councils.
In a disease such as tuberculosis, the prevention of infection, and the treatment
of the patient frequently cannot be separated.
In certain cases it is no doubt desirable that the local authority should
be able to offer sanatorium treatment, and for this the powers of the Public
Health Act, 1875, and the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, are available.
Under these powers local authorities may either themselves provide sanatoria
or may contract for the use of such institutions.
The Board have been advised that these powers also enable a local authority
to provide or contract for the use of dispensaries or out-patients' hospitals.
Treatment in an institution is not, however, always necessary or desirable,
and there are many cases which, under suitable instruction and supervision,
may properly be treated in the patients' own homes.