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(3) A person shall not return to any public or circulating
library a book which he knows to have been exposed
to infection from a notifiable disease, or permit any
such book which is under his control to be so returned,
but shall give notice to the local authority or, in the
case of a library provided by a County Council, to that
Council, that the book has been exposed to infection.
(4) A person who contravenes any of the foregoing provisions
of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding
five pounds.
(5) A local authority or, as the case may be, a county
cil on receiving such a notice as aforesaid shall cause
the book to be disinfected and returned to the library,
or shall cause it to be destroyed.
Advice when required regarding the above Section will be
given at the Public Health Department. .
December—Treloar Christmas Hamper Fund.
The Mayoress distributed on Christmas Eve twelve hampers
which had been allocated by the Treloar Crippled Children's
Christmas Hamper Fund.
Children considered suitable recipients for these gifts were
revealed through the kind co-operation of a number of Wembley
residents interested in the various charity organisations as well
as from the information obtained in their duties by the officers
of the public health department.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND OTHER OFFICERS
SUPERANNUATION ACT, 1922.
During the year 125 examinations were made by the Medical
Officer of Health of persons about to be appointed to the permanent
staff of the Council.
The Council have adopted the principle that with regard
to his medical report as respects the admission of officers or
employees into the Council's Superannuation Scheme, the Medical
Officer of Health must be satisfied that an officer or
employee, upon examination, is a first class life, having due
regard to the duties which the officer or employee will be called
upon to perform.
In addition 46 examinations were made of candidates for
recruitment in the Auxiliary Fire Service.
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