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(3) The Corporation shall provide and supply gratuitously to every registered
medical practitioner, resident or practising in the borough, forms for the
certificate or declaration by such medical practitioner of the particulars
hereinafter mentioned, in relation to such cases according to the form set
forth in the fifth schedule to this Act.
(4) Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit such inmate shall,
on becoming aware that such inmate is suffering from any such disease as
aforesaid, forthwith fill up, sign, and send to the Corporation at the Town
Hall a certificate or declaration, stating according to the forms prescribed
and supplied to him by the Corporation, the name of such inmate, the
situation of such building, and the name of such occupier or person, and
the nature of the disease from which such inmate is suffering.
(5) The Corporation shall pay to every medical practitioner, who shall, in
pursuance of this section, duly make and give any such certificate or
declaration a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each such certificate or
declaration; and any person who shall offend against this enactment
(unless ignorant thereof, the burden of the proof of which shall be on
him) shall for every such offence be liable to a penalty not exceeding
ten pounds.
The subjoined form is in use in Bolton in carrying out the provisions
of the Act.
[To be left in the Sanitary Office, at the Town Hall. A certificate is required
only on the occurrence of any of the following diseases, viz.:—Small-pox,
Cholera, Measles, Scarlet Fever, Typhus Fever, Typhoid Fever, Continued
Fever, Puerperal Fever, and Diphtheria.]
BOLTON IMPROVEMENT ACT, 1877.
Section 87.
To the Corporation of the Borough of Bolton.
Pursuant to the above mentioned Act I hereby certify and declare that in my
opinion the under-mentioned person is suffering from a disease within the terms of
such section.
Dated the day 18
(Signed)
Name of person suffering from the
disease
Situation of the building wherein
such person is
Name of occupier or other person
having the charge, management,
or control of the building or room
Nature of the disease
Note.—This certificate must (under penalty of five pounds in case of neglect)
be forthwith sent to the Corporation, at the Town Hall, and delivered to the official
clerk or servant of the Corporation who shall be found in attendance there.
As an Act is now in force compelling certain parties to give information
to the sanitary authority of a large district in England, it
surely might, with modifications if required, be made applicable to
all the sanitary authorities in the United Kingdom.