Bare ActsMadras Public Health Act, 1939

Section 79

Patient to be instructed in methods of prevention of the spread of venereal disease.--

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Every physician or other person treating, or examining with a view to treatment, a person having a venereal disease shall, at the first visit-- (a) impress upon such person the necessity for treatment until the cure is effected; (b) instruct him in regard to the measures necessary for preventing the spread of the disease; and (c) furnish him with such other information relating to the disease as may be provided by the [Director of Health Services]. Substituted by Kerala Decentralisation of powers Act, 2000 (Act 16 of 2000), published in K. G. Ext. No. 869 dt. 12/05/2000, for the words "Director of Public Health".

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