The proper officer then sends a report to the Centre for Infections of the Health Protection Agency (HPA) in Colindale, north London.
The system spread to the rest of England and Wales in 1899 with the Infectious Disease (Notification) Extension Act 1899 (62 & 63 Vict.
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.
c. 55), to isolate patients in hospital, disinfect property and belongings, suspend schooling, and temporarily close businesses.
The attending doctor must notify the proper officers, who are usually public health clinicians called consultants in communicable disease control.