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Appendix C.
Article 18. Duties of Medical Officer of Health.
(1) To inform himself of all influences affecting or threatening to affect injuriously the
public health in his District.
(2) To enquire into the causes, origin, and distribution of diseases therein, and how
far dependent on preventible causes.
(3) By systematic and special inspections to keep himself informed of all conditions
injurious or dangerous to health.
(4) To advise the Sanitary Authority on all matters affecting the health of their Dis- trict, and sanitary points involved in their action. Also to certify to the Sanitary Authority or Justices of the Peace whenever the certificate of a Medical Officer of Health or medical practitioner is required.
(5) To advise the Sanitary Authority on all sanitary questions involved in the making
or working of bye-laws, &c.
(6) On receiving information of the outbreak of any dangerous or infectious disease, to visit the place without delay, inquire into the causes and circumstances, advise as to preventive measures, and take any such authorized by statute or local regulation.
(7) Subject to the instructions of the Sanitary Authority, and in such manner as they may approve, to direct and superintend the work of the Sanitary Inspectors and when appealed to by the Sanitary Inspector as to any nuisances, to take as early as practicable any steps that he legally may, and which appear to him necessary or justified under the circumstances.
(8) Whenever it appears to him necessary or advisable, or he be instructed by the Sanitary Authority to do so, to inspect and examine any animal or articles of food exposed or intended for sale, or for preparation for sale as food for man. If such animal, or article of food appear to him diseased, unwholesome, or in any way unfit for food of man he shall himself, or by an assistant, seize it and carry it away, to be dealt with by a Justice of the l'eace under Public Health (London) Act, paragraph 47, Public Health Act paragraph 117.
(9) To perform all duties legally imposed on him by any bye-law of the Sanitary
Authority.
(10) To inquire into any offensive trades, and report as to any practicable preventive
measures.
(11) To inspect from time to time all bakehouses and workshops, and report thereon to Sanitary Authority in respect to the provisions of the Factory and Work- shops Act 1878, paragraphs 34, 35, and 81, and of Factory Workshops Act 1883, paragraphs 15 and 16.
(12) To attend the office of the Sanitary Authority as required.
(13) To report from time to time in writing to the Sanitary Authority his proceedings, and any measures he may deem advisable in the interests of the public health; as well as on the occurrence of sickness, and the mortality therefrom,
(14) To keep a book or books provided by the Sanitary Authority and enter therein his visits, observations, and instructions; all applications made to him and his action thereon, &c., and to produce the same to the Sanitary Authority whenever required.