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respect to "Notification," that they had "little difficulty in
forming the opinion that the time had arrived when provisions of
law on this subject may be sanctioned, at least, in the most
important Urban Sanitary Districts," and they framed a " Model
Clause," which has since been incorporated in divers provincial
Local Acts as follows :—
" 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