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NEW LEGISLATION.
In former annual reports an account of new public health legislation has
been given each year. That of 1913 is given below
General Acts.
Public Health (Prevention ancl Treatment of Disease) Act, 1913.
'2. The Local Government Board shall have power to declare that one of the
of the authorities to execute and enforce regulations made by the Board under
section one hundred and thirty of the Public Health Act, 1875, with a view to the
treatment of persons affected with cholera or any other epidemic, endenic, or
infectious disease, and preventing the spread of cholera and such other diseases,
shall be the council of a county, and that section shall have effect accordingly as
if a county council were an authority within the meaning of that section :
Provided that, except in case of emergency, the Local Government Board
shall not require the council of a county to execute and enforce any such regulations-
without the consent of such council.
8. It shall be lawful for the council of any county or for any sanitary
authority to make any such arrangements as may be sanctioned by the Local
Government Board for the treatment of tuberculosis: Provided that the power
conferred by this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any
other power.
4. Any expenses incurred under this Act shall, in the case of a sanitary
authority, be defrayed as part of the expenses incurred by them in the execution
of the Public Health Acts, and in the case of a county council as expenses for
general county purposes, or, if the Local Government Board by order so direct,
as expenses for special county purposes charged on such part of the county as
may be provided by the order.
5. This Act may be cited as the Public Health (Prevention and Treatment of
Disease) Act, 1913.
National Insurance Act, 1913.
This is an Act amending and extending the existing law as to National
Insurance. The following sections deal with sickness and public health:—
Sees. 10 to 14 deal with medical, sickness and maternity benefits.
,, 32 and 33 deal with medical benefits.
39. Notwithstanding anything in any Act, it shall be lawful for the managers
of the Metropolitan Asylums district, with the sanction of the Local Government
Board, to enter into agreements with any county council or county borough
council or, with the consent of the county council, with any authority in a county
for the reception of insured persons and their dependants suffering from tuberculosis
or any such other disease as the Local Government Board, with the
approval of the Treasury, may appoint under section eight of the principal Act,
into hospitals or sanatoria provided by the managers, and for this purpose the
managers shall not be deemed to be a poor law authority. Any such agreements
may provide that the cost of the treatment of the patients so received, or some
part thereof, shall be borne otherwise than as provided by section eighty of the
Public Health (London) Act, 1891.