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my Report for 1881 (page 40), wherein I stated that, as the desirability
for extension of such legislation in the shape of a Public
Act was generally acknowledged, it only remained for the Government
to introduce a measure for the purpose of securing notification.
In the Session of 1882, several Private Bills providing
for " Police or Sanitary Regulations " were introduced, at the
instance of provincial Corporations, and referred to a Select
Committee, of which Mr. Sclater-Booth, an ex-President of the
Local Government Board, was Chairman. In their Report on
the " Sanitary Regulations," the Committee stated, with 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 Local Acts as follows:—
“I. Iii 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 110 such head, or if such head be
prevented bv 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;