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The Board do not consider it necessary
to refer in detail to the duties prescribed by the
Order for medical officers of health. For the most
part they are analogous to those at present prescribed
for medical officers of health appointed under the
Public Health Act, 1875.
It will be observed that paragraph (16) of
Article 16 will require the medical officer of health
to transmit to the Board a copy of each annual and
of any special report. It is important that this
should be done, as, if the Board certify that the
requirement has not been complied with, a sum
equal to one half of his salary will be forfeited to the
Crown, under section 24 (2) (c) of the Local Government
Act, and must be paid by the county council
into the Exchequer, and not to the local authority.
A copy of each report, whether annual or
special, must be sent to the London County Council
by the medical officer of health, and, if a copy of
each annual report is not so sent, the county council
may refuse to pay any contribution which otherwise
they would, in pursuance of the Act, pay towards the
salary of the officer. See section 19 (1).
It will also be the duty of the medical
officer of health to give immediate information to
the Board and to the London County Council of any