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the third and last set extends notification to private patients and to
children attending Public Elementary Schools, and provides that—
Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to
visit any person must, within forty-eight hours after he becomes
aware that such person is suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis,
notify the case to the Medical Officer of Health of the
area in which the person's residence is situate.
Every medical practitoner who is a School Medical
Inspector must also notify to the Medical Officer of Health
of the area in which the school is situate any cases of Pulmonary
Tuberculosis of which he becomes aware during the course of
his inspections.
It is also especially provided in these Regulations, as in
the previous regulations, that "nothing in these Regulations
shall have effect so as to apply, or so as to authorise or require
a Medical Officer of Health or a Council, or any person or
authority, directly or indirectly, to put in force with respect
to any patient, in relation to whom a notification in pursuance
of these regulations has been transmitted to a Medical Officer
of Health, any enactment which renders the patient, or a person
in charge of a patient, or any other person liable to a
penalty, or subjects the patient to any restriction, prohibition
or disability affecting himself or his employment, occupation or
means of livelihood, on the ground of his suffering from Pulmonary
Tuberculosis."
Object of Notification of Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
The main object of making Pulmonary Tuberculosis a notifiable
disease is to enable Local Authorities, firstly, to obtain
accurate knowledge of the prevalence of this disease in their respective
areas; and, secondly, to apply such means of treatment and
prevention as are required in order to eradicate the disease from the
community.