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boats, tents, vans, and sheds, but excluding hospitals receiving
cases of infectious disease, and buildings, ships, vessels,
boats, tents, vans, and sheds belonging to Her Majesty) with
any of the diseases known by the following names (namely,
small-pox, cholera, diphtheria, membranous croup, erysipelas,
scarlatina or scarlet fever, typhus, and typhoid, enteric,
relapsing, continued, and puerperal fevers), it shall be the
duty of the head of the family, or, in his default, some one
representing him or having charge of the patient, to give
notice thereof, and the duty of the Medical Attendant to
send a certificate containing all necessary particulars to the
Medical Officer of Health of the District.
The Medical Attendant's certificate is to be given on a
form which the Vestry will have to supply him with
gratuitously on his application; and he will be entitled for
every certificate duly sent by him to a fee of 2s. 6d. in
respect of every private patient, and to a fee of Is. if the
case occurs in his practice as Medical Officer of any public
body or institution.
Every person (including the Medical Attendant)
required to give notice who fails to give the same, is liable,
on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding forty
shillings.
It will doubtless be thought desirable (though it does
not seem to be necessary) that notice by handbills should
be given to the Parishioners of their duties under the Act;
and it will be the duty of the Vestry to print forms of
certificates to be distributed to the medical practitioners of
the Parish.