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Copies of Letters and Circulars forwarded to Medical Practitioners
regarding cases where delay had occurred in notifying cases
under the Regulations.
I find from my returns of deaths that the above-named was
certified by you to have died on the —— from ——, but I have
not received a notification as required by the Public Health
(Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912.
Article V. of the Regulations requires that "every medical
practitioner shall within 48 hours after becoming- aware that such
person is suffering- from tuberculosis, make and sign a notification
of the case in Form A., and shall transmit the notification to the
Medical Officer of Health for the district within which the place
of residence of the person is situate at the date of notification."
I am forwarding, for your information, an extract from
Circular 549 of the Ministry of Health with reference to the
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1912 and 1921.
The Ministry of Health are paying increasing attention to the
question of notification of Tuberculosis, and I should be glad if
you would co-operate with me in this respect as fully as possible.
Will you therefore kindly inform me whether the diagnosis
was only made after the death of the patient, as in such cases a
notification is not required.
PUBLIC HEALTH (TUBERCULOSIS) REGULATIONS,
1912 and 1921.
Circular 549—Ministry of Health—22nd December, 1924.
"Notifications under the Regulations "—Paragraph 5 :—
"The Minister desires to take this opportunity of impressing
upon Local Authorities the responsibility which attaches to them
for seeing that the requirements of the Regulations are fully observed
in their Districts, and I am to state that where (as in the