Hygiene and public health / by B. Arthur Whitelegge.

  • Whitelegge, Arthur, Sir, 1852-1933.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Hygiene and public health / by B. Arthur Whitelegge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XIV, MEDICAL OFFICERS OF HEALTH. Every Sanitary Authority is required (Public Health Act, 1875, sections 189, 190) to appoint one or more medical officers of health and an inspector of nuisances. Two or more Sanitary Authorities may appoint the same medical officer of health ; and, apart from this, the Local Government Board is empowered (section 286) to compulsorily unite districts for the purpose of ap- pointing a medical officer of health. County Councils are authorised, by the 17th section of the Local Government Act, 1888, to appoint (county) medical officers of health, who are forbidden to hold other appointments or engage in private practice without the written consent of the Council. If any part of the salary of the medical officer of health to a local authority is repaid, the Local Government Board has the same powers in regard to qualification, appointment, duties, salary, and tenure of office as it has in the case of a Poor Law medical officer (Public Health Act, section 191). Qualifications.—The orders issued by the Local Government Board require that the medical officer of health shall be registered under the Medical Act of 1858, and be qualified by law to practise both medi- cine and surgery in England and Wales. The powers of the Board in this respect are practically superseded by the Local Government Act, 1888, section 18 of which requires that (except when the Local Govern- ment Board, for reasons brought to their notice, may see fit in particular cases especially to allow) every medical officer of health appointed after the passing of the Act shall be legally qualified for the practice of medicine, surgery, and midwifery ; and further, by