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And the following Model Clause was agreed to—
"I. In order to secure that due notice be given to the Corporation of
any inmate of any building used for human habitation who is suffering
from any infectious disease the following provisions shall take effect
(that is to say):—
1. If any such inmate be suffering from any infectious disease the
occupier or the person having the charge, management or control of
such building (or if such occupier or person be prevented by reason
of such disease, then the person in charge of such inmate) shall so
soon as he shall become aware of the existence in any such inmate
of any such disease forthwith give notice thereof to the Medical
Officer of Health at his office.
2. If such inmate be not a member of the family of such occupier or
person, the head of the family (resident in such building) to which
such inmate belongs, or if there be no such head, or if such head be
prevented by illness, then such inmate (unless prevented by reason
of such disease or of youth) shall, on becoming aware of the
existence in such inmate, or in his own person as the case may be, of
such disease, forthwith give notice thereof to such occupier or person ;
3. The Corporation shall provide and supply gratuitously to every
registered medical practitioner resident or practising in the Borough
who shall apply for the same forms for the certificate or declaration
to be made by such medical practitioner of the particulars hereinafter
mentioned in relation to such cases according to the form set
forth in the Second Schedule to this Act;
4. Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit such
inmate shall on becoming aware that such inmate is suffering from
any infectious disease forthwith fill up, sign and deliver or send to
the Medical Officer of Health at his office a certificate or declaration
stating, according to the form so prescribed, the name of such inmate,
the situation of such building, the name of such occupier or person,
and the nature of such infectious disease from which in the opinion
of such medical practitioner such inmate is suffering ;
5. The Corporation shall pay to every registered medical practitioner
who shall in pursuance of this section duly make and give any such
certificate or declaration, a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each
such certificate or declaration in respect of cases occurring in his
private practice and a fee of one shilling for each such certificate or
declaration in respect of cases occurring in his practice as a medical
officer to any public body or institution ;
6. And any person who shall wilfully offend against this enactment
shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty
shillings."
A second clause makes provision for including other diseases
which may be declared to be within the foregoing provision; but
it is scarcely probable that it would become necessary to add to
the list of scheduled diseases.