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2.—A District Medical Officer must notify any poor person
upon whom he is in attendance as Poor Law Medical Officer,
as soon as he becomes aware that such person is suffering from
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
3.—The Superintending Officer of a Poor Law Institution
must notify any poor person, who has been an inmate of such
institution and has previously been notified as suffering from
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, on leaving that institution.
4.—A Relieving Officer must notify any poor person, who
has already been notified as suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis
by a District Poor Law Medical Officer within his district,
on his becoming aware of a change of address of such poor
person.
These regulations, it will be observed, only concern patients
who are receiving Poor Law Medical Relief.
The second set of Regulations was issued by an Order of the
Local Government Board in March, 1911, under the title "Regulations
as to Tuberculosis (Hospitals)," and they came into operation
on the 1st May, 1911. These Regulations require all Medical Officers
of Hospitals ('hospital' including dispensaries and similar institutions),
to notify to the Medical Officer of Health of the area in which
The hospital is situate, the name, age, sex and address of any person
on whom he is in attendance, who is suflering from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis.
The third and last set of Regulations, which completes the
system of notification commenced in 1908, was made by an Order
of the Local Government Board on the 15th November, 1911, and
came into operation on the 1st January, 1912.
Whereas the first set of Regulations deals only with persons
who are in receipt of Poor Law Medical Relief, and the second set
with persons attending hospitals, dispensaries and similar institutions,