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130.
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1930
and
Ministry of Health Circular No. 1107.
These important Regulations which replace and
consolidate the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations
of 1912, 1921 and 1924 came into force on 1st
January. 1931.
In accordance with a suggestion of the Ministry
in the Circular all medical practitioners practising or
resident in the borough, were circularised and informed
of the alterations which affect them in the course of
their duties.
School Medical Officers instead of notifying cases
of tuberculosis weekly to the Medical Officer of Health
on a special form (Form B), must use the ordinary notification
form used by practitioners for all notifiable
diseases in its place.
The forms used by medical officers of Poor Law
Institutions and Sanatoria for notifying admissions and
discharges of cases of tuberculosis (called in the new
Regulations Forms I and II instead of B and C) which
are sent weekly to the Medical Officer of Health, have
been improved so as to make it clear that the original
diagnosis made before admission to the institution does
not rest with the medical officer of the institution but
with the practitioner who made the original diagnosis.
Under the 1912 Regulations notifications must be
transmitted in a sealed envelope to the Medical Officer
of Health of the Borough but under the 1930 Regulations
it is sufficient if the notification form is folded and sealed
in such a way as to prevent the particulars of the
notification from being observed.
The quarterly returns furnished by the Medical
Officer of Health of the borough to the County Medical