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Civil Liberties and Public Good: Detention of Tuberculous Patients and the Public Health Act 1984

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2011

Richard Coker
Richard Coker
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Research Fellow, Public Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, ECOHOST, Room B124, Keppel Street, London, WC1E 7HT.
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On 30 August 1998, the Mail on Sunday, under the headline “TB refugee ‘must be held in hospital’”, described the case of a Somalian man who had been “ordered by a court to remain in hospital for six months to prevent him spreading a highly infectious deadly disease”. That disease was tuberculosis and a court order had been issued “after the man had twice staggered into Northwick Park Hospital in Harrow, North-West London, for treatment but left without trace. He failed to take prescribed treatment and his condition rapidly deteriorated, forcing him to return to hospital a third time.”

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Medical History , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , July 2001 , pp. 341 - 358
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2001