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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Wimbledon 1960
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Wimbledon]
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PUBLIC HEALTH (PREVENTION OF TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS 192?
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1936 (Section 172)
During i960 it did not become necessary to use the powers given under the
above legislation. These powers prohibit persons suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis from entering upon employment involving the handling of milk, and
the compulsory removal and detention in hospital, in certain circumstances, of
persons suffering from tuberculosis.