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SECTION V.
LEGISLATION OF 1916.
ACTS, CIRCULARS, ORDERS, REGULATIONS, ETC.
Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1916.
With a circular letter, dated 26th May. Section 5 reduced the fee to
medical practitioners for notifying infectious diseases from half-a-crown to
one shilling each. The Act took effect on and from May 17th, when the Act
received the King's assent. It lasts for duration of war, and further at the
option of the Local Government Board.
Section 10.—Authorising payments (or rebate) from County Councils,
of salaries of M.O.H. and Inspector of Nuisances who are on war service,
and of their locum tenentes.
Section 15.—Authorising payments to registrars for statistical information
furnished in pursuance of Section 2 of the Parliament and Registration
Act, 1916.
Section 19.—Authorises us, if we wish, to arrange for the storage of
furniture whilst persons are serving with His Majesty's Forces, upon such
terms as the Council may impose.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
On the 28th September the Local Government Board sent me a pamphlet,
in convenient octavo size, containing :—
(1) Circular and Memo., 30th July, 1914.
(2) Circular and Memo., 29th July, 1915.
(3) Memo, by the Chief Medical Officer, November, 1915.
(4) Circular issued 23rd September, 1916.
(5) Regulations about grants of above date.
The Board of Education, in 1916, issued a reprint from the Report of
their Chief Medical Officer for 1914, styled Circular 940, with the title of
"Education and Infant Welfare."
All these publications I heartily commend to your notice.
Tuberculosis Regulations, 1916 (No. 1).
Addressed to Local Sanitary Authorities, but not to County Boroughs, nor
County Councils, dated 13th May, with circular letter dated 15th, from the
Local Government Board. They last till the end of the war only. The object