The Public Health (London) Act, 1891 : with an introduction notes, and an index / by W.A. Holdsworth.

  • Great Britain.
Date:
1891
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Credit: The Public Health (London) Act, 1891 : with an introduction notes, and an index / by W.A. Holdsworth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Sect. 55. attendance on the patient, and in default of any such person the master of the house, shall, as soon as he becomes aware that the patient is suffering from an infectious disease to which this section applies, send notice thereof to the medical officer of health of the district: {b.) Every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit the patient shall forthwith, on becoming aware that the patient is suffering from an infectious disease to which this section applies, send to the medical officer of health of the district a certificate stating the full name and the age and sex of the patient, the full postal address of the house, and the infectious disease from which in the opinion of such medical practitioner the patient is suffering, and stating also whether the case occurs in the private practice of such practitioner or in his practice as a medical officer of any public body or institution, and where the certificate refers to the inmate of a hospital it shall specify the place from which and the date at which the inmate was brought to the hospital, and shall be sent to the medical officer of health of the district in which the said place is situate: Provided that, in the case of a hospital of the Me- tropolitan Asylum Managers, a notice or certificate need not be sent respecting any inmate with respect to whom a copy of the certificate has been previously for- warded by the medical officer of health of the district to the said Managers. (2.) Every person required by this section to send a notice or certificate, who fails forthwith to send the same, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding forty shillings : Provided that if a person is not required to send notice in the first instance, but only in default of some other person, he shall not be liable to any fine if he satisfies the court that he had rcrisonable cause to suppose that the notice had been duly sent. (3.) The Local Government Board may prescribe forms for the purpose of certificates to be sent in pursuance of this section, and if such forms are so pre- scribed, they shall be used in all cases to which they apply. The sanitary authority shall gratuitously supply forms of certificate to any medical practitioner residing or practising in their district who applies for the same,