[Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Ely County Council.

  • Isle of Ely (England). County Council. n 78027969.
Date:
1912
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Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Credit: [Report 1912] / Medical Officer of Health, Isle of Ely County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HEALTH, “The duties of a Medical Officer of Health of a Countv shall be such as may be prescribed by General Order of the Local Government Board and such other duties as may be assigned to him bv the County Council.”—Housing and Town Planning Act, 1900, Part III, S'. 08 (2). The Board on July 29, 1910, issued the County Medical Officers of Health (Duties) Order, 19.10, prescribing the following duties : — (1) Tlio Medical Officer of Health of the County shall inform himself as far as practicable respecting all influences affecting or threatening to affect injuriously the public health in the County. For this purpose he shall visit the several County districts in the County as occasion may require, giving to the Medical Officer of Health of each County district prior notice of his visit, so far as this may be practicable. (2) The Medical Officer of Health of the County shall from time to time inquire into and report upon the hospital accommodation available for the isolation of cases occurring in the County— (a) of small-pox, and (b) of other infectious diseases, and upon any need for the provision of further hospital accommodation. (3) The Medical Officer of Health of the County shall communicate to the Medical Officer of Health of a County district within the County any information w hich he may possess as to any danger to health threatening that district. (It The Medical Officer of Health of the County shall consult with the Medical Officers of Health of County districts within the County whenever the circumstances may render this desirable. (ft) If the annual or special reports of the Medical Officer of Health of a County district in the County shall not contain adequate information in regard to (a) the vital statistics of the district, (b) the sat itary circumstances and administration of the district, and (c) the action taken in the district for putting in force the provisions of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890 to 1909, the Medical Officer of Health of the County shall obtain from the Medical Officer of Health of the County district such further information on those matters as the circumstances may demand. (0) The Medical Officer of Health of the County shall, when directed by Fs, or by the County Council, or as occasion may require, make a Special Report to the County Council on any matter appertaining to his duties under this Order. (7) The Medical Officer of Health of the County shall as soon as practic- able after the 31st day of December in each year make an Annual Report to the County Council up to the end of December on the sanitary circumstances, the sanitary administration and the vital statistics of the County.