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APPENDIX.
REPORT OF THE MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH ON THE
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS,
1911, RESPECTING THE NOTIFICATION AND
TREATMENT OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS.
To the Chairman and Members
of the Public Health Committee.
Gentlemen,
These regulations, which come into operation on the 1st January,
1912, are the last of a series of regulations made under Section 130
of the Public Health Act, 1875, the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, and the Public Health Act, 1896, having for their object the
prevention of the spread of Tuberculosis.
The first set of regulations was made by an Order of the Local
Government Board on the 18th December, 1908, and came into
force on the 1st January, 1909.
The chief object of these regulations is to make all cases of
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, occurring amongst persons in receipt of
Poor Law Medical Relief, notifiable to the Medical Officer of Health
of the area in which the person notified is resident. The form of
notification under these regulations is fourfold, viz.:—
1.—The Medical Officer of a Poor Law Institution must
notify any poor person, an inmate of the Poor Law Institution,
within forty-eight hours of his becoming aware that such
person is suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis.