HC Deb 12 February 1913 vol 48 cc1145-6

(1) Where a dispensary is established by a county council under the principal Act, for the treatment of inhabitants of the county suffering from tuberculosis, Section one of the principal Act shall, as respects that county, have effect with the following modifications (that is to say):—

(a) Any certificate with respect to a person in the county suffering from tuberculosis which under that section is required to be sent to the medical officer of health shall, instead of being sent to that officer, be sent to the medical superintendent of the dispensary, or a there is more than one such dispensary, established by the county council, to the medical superintendent of the dispensary nearest to the place where the person is, and accordingly for references to the medical officer of health there shall be substituted references to such medical superintendent, and for references to the sanitary authority there shall be substituted references to the county council, or where the dispensary is a common dispensary established by the county council in combination with any other county council or councils, to the joint committee of management:

(b) It shall be the duty of the medical superintendent of the dispensary, when he considers it necessary that steps should be taken by the sanitary authority of any sanitary district in the county under Section two of the principal Act, for the purpose of preventing the spread of infection in connection with any case of tuberculosis notified to him, to send a report to the sanitary authority, stating the steps which ought in his opinion to be taken.

(2) This Section shall not apply to a county borough.

Mr. BIRRELL

I beg to move to leave out the Clause.

Question, "That the Clause stand part of the Bill," put, and negatived.