Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889
| Act of Parliament | |
 52 & 53 Vict. c. 72 | |
| Territorial extent |
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|---|---|
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 30 August 1889 |
| Other legislation | |
| Repealed by | Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889 (
puerperal fever. Householders or general practitioners who failed to notify a case of one of these diseases was liable to a fine of up to forty shillings.[2]
The 1889 act came about after experiments in fifty provincial towns and cities that had adopted some form of infectious diseases notification through a local act of Parliament. These local laws were important forerunners of the national legislation, but they covered less than one-quarter of the country’s urban population and no rural sanitary authority had a local act in place in 1889. The 1889 act was widely taken up and by the time the mandatory 1899 act came into effect, notification reached almost all corners of the UK.
Following receipt of a notification certificate, the local sanitary authority's
38 & 39 Vict. c. 55), to isolate patients in hospital, disinfect property and belongings, suspend schooling, and temporarily close businesses.[3]
References
- ^ "Infectious Disease (Notification) Act 1889", legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives, 1889 c. 72
- S2CID 40987763. Retrieved 16 October 2015.
- ISBN 9781580465274. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
