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Under Article VI the superintending officer of a Poor Law Institution
must notify the medical officer of health of the actual or intended place of
destination and address at that place of any person leaving the Institution
that has been the subject of notification.
Article VII directs that a relieving officer must notify changes of patients'
addresses to the medical officer of health of the district to which such
person may move.
By Article VIII notifications directed under the Order are to be paid for
by the sanitary authority.
The remuneration allowed to medical officers of a Poor Law Institution or
a district medical officer will be at (he rate of one shilling, and in the case
of a superintending officer of a Poor Law Institution or a relieving officer
at the rate of threepence for every notification, but when in relation to one
and the same case, two or more notifications have been sent by a Poor Law
medical officer to one and the same medical officer of health, his remuneration
will be sixpence for every notification after the first.
Article IX provides that nothing in the regulations shall have effect so as to
apply to, or to authorise anyone to put in force with respect to a person in
relation to whom a notificat on has been made, any enactment which renders
him, or any other person, liable to a penalty, or subject him to any restriction,
prohibition, or disability affecting him or his employment, occupation, means
of livelihood, or residence on the ground of his suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis. Subject to this qualification a sanitary authority, on the advice
of their medical officer of health, may, in the case of a poor person notified
as suffering from this disease:—
i. “ Take all such measures or do all such things as are authorised, in
“ any case of infectious disease, or of dangerous infectious disease,
“ by any enactment relating to public health, and as have reference
“ to the destruction and disinfection of infected articles, or to the
“ cleansing or disinfecting of premises ;
ii. “ Take all such measures or do all such things as are appropriate
“ and necessary for the safe disposal or destruction of infectious
“ material, produced and discharged, as a result of pulmonary
“ tuberculosis ; and otherwise for the prevention of the spread
“ of infection from any such material ;
iii. “ Afford or supply all such assistance, facilities, or articles as, within
“ such reasonable limits as the circumstances of the case require
“ and allow, will obviate, or remove, or diminish the risk of