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infection. They may, subject to certain restrictions
intended to protect the person notified from suffering
disability affecting himself or his employment, occupation,
means of livelihood or residence on the ground of
his suffering from Pulmonary Tuberculosis :—
(I.) "Take all such measures or do all such things
as are authorised in any case of infectious disease,
by any enactment relating to public health, and as have
reference to the destruction and disinfection of infected
articles, or the cleansing or disinfecting of premises.
(II.) Take all such measures and do all such things
as are appropriate and necessary for the safe disposal
or destruction of infectious material, produced or discharged,
as a result of Pulmonary Tuberculosis; and
otherwise for the prevention of the spread of infection
from any such material.
(III.) Afford or supply all such assistance, facilities,,
or articles as, within such reasonable limits as the circumstances
of the case require and allow, will obviate,
or remove, or diminish the risk of infection arising from
the conditions affecting the use or occupation of any
room, when used or occupied by the poor person as a
sleeping apartment.
(IV). Furnish, for the use of the poor person, on
loan or otherwise, any appliance, apparatus, or utensil
which will be of assistance for the purpose of any precaution
against the spread of infection.
A Council, on the advice of their Medical Officer of
Health, may provide and publish or distribute in the
form of placards, handbills, or leaflets, suitable summaries
of information and instruction respecting
Pulmonary Tuberculosis, and the precautions to be taken
against the spread of infection from that disease."
It is, however, difficult to get these cases into sanatoria
for treatment, and often valuable time is lost.
There should be an institution of this kind in every
county, administered by a committee of the County
Council, where necessitous cases-could be treated free.
Patients able to do so ought to contribute according to
their means so that the institution might be largely
self-supporting when once fully started. Institutions of
this kind are as much needed as Isolation Hospitals for
the treatment of other Infectious Diseases.
Provision ought also to be made for isolating
advanced cases, which are by far the most dangerous to
the community.