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SECTION V.
LEGISLATION, GOVERNMENT ORDERS,
REGULATIONS, ETC.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS, 1912.
The Date of Operation of the Regulations is February 1st,
1913.
A copy of the Circular, but not of the Order, is to be sent (it is suggested)
to each medical practitioner living or practising in the district.
The circular is addressed to all Local Sanitary Authorities, but not to
County Boroughs, nor to Counties, but the Order is addressed to Administrative
Counties, the City of London, Metropolitan and Municipal Boroughs
and Urban Districts, and to Boards of Guardians in England and Wales, and
to Asylum Managers and every District School in England and Wales, and
to all Medical Practitioners. The last are defined as "any person for the
time being registered under the Medical Acts." "Within 48 hours" is the
limit as before, except for S.M.I, and the supplementary forms "C" and the
discharge forms "D" of poor law institutions and sanitoria, which are all for
weekly issue, when necessary.
This document dated 19th December was received by me on the 21st
of that month from our Clerk, together with a circular from the Local Government
Board dated 20th December, 1912. These latest Regulations form
a consolidating Order, which revokes those issued for paupers in 1908, for
hospital patients March, 1911, and for private patients November, 1911.
Thus the notification of cases of pulmonary tubercle is condensed and the
process simplified. Where the new regulations are inapplicable to peculiar
circumstances, the Board may approve special regulations for a district or institution.
Extended Scope. The regulations now apply to non-pulmonary as
well as pulmonary tubercle, i.e., all forms of tubercle will be now legally notifiable
by the practitioners to the M.O.H. But they do not confer any additional
power of requiring alterations in factories, workshops and workplaces;
if any alterations are thought to be necessary, H.M. Inspector should be consulted
before recommendations are made in regard to such alterations.
Duties Laid on the M.O.H. of the Local Sanitary Authority.
Article XI. of these regulations requires him:-
(1) To send to the appropriate district all notifications erroneously
addressed to him and to inform the notifying practitioner that
he has done so;