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The notification must be posted within 48 hours after the Medical Officer
has first recognised the symptoms of pulmonary tuberculosis, and must be
addressed to the Medical Officer of Health for the Sanitary District in which
the residence of the patient is situate.
It is the duty of the Superintending Officer of a Poor Law Institution to
post to the Medical Officer of Health within 48 hours, a notification of the
actual or intended place of destination of any person leaving the Institution, in
respect of whom a notification has been made by the Medical Officer of the
Institution.
The Relieving Officer must notify the Medical Officer of Health within
48 hours of his obtaining accurate information of the change of address of any
person in respect of whom a notification has been made by a District Medical
Officer.
The Medical Officers of Poor Law Institutions and the District Medical
Officers are paid at the rate of one shilling for every notification, and sixpence
for every notification after the first.
In the case of a Superintending Officer of a Poor Law Institution or a
Relieving Officer, the remuneration is at the rate of three pence for every
notification.
Nothing in these Regulations shall have effect so as to render the person
notified, or the person in charge of the patient, liable to a penalty, or subjects
the patient to any restriction, prohibition, or disability, affecting himself or his
employment, occupation, means of livelihood, or residence, on the ground of his
suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
Subject as aforesaid, a Council—on the advice of their Medical Officer of
Health—in the case of a poor person in relation to whom a notification in pursuance
of these Regulations has been posted to the Medical Officer of Health,
may, for the purpose of preventing the spread of infection from pulmonary
tuberculosis:—
(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 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,