[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of].

  • St. Pancras (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1914]
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Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, London, Borough of]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    140 under the provisions of any Local Act or Order made thereunder, shall at the same time state in writing, either on the form or on a separate sheet attached to the form, the date of birth of the child, the name and address of the parent or other person, if any, having charge of the child, and the date of the onset of the disease. Notification by Certified Midwives. Article VI.—Subject to the provisions of Article X. of these Regulations every Certified Midwife who has reasonable grounds for supposing that a child upon whom she is in attendance or whom she is called in to visit in the course of her practice is suffering from Ophthalmia Neonatorum, shall, unless the case has been already notified by a Medical Practitioner, forthwith make and sign a notification of the case in the Form set out in the Schedule to these Regulations, and shall transmit the notification to the Medical Officer of Health for the District within which the place of residence of the parent or other person, if any, having charge of the child is situate at the date of notification. Transmission of Notifications. Article VII.—A notification to be transmitted to a Medical Officer of Health in pursuance of these Regulations shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to that Officer and may be transmitted by being delivered to him or by being delivered at his office or residence, or may be sent by prepaid letter post addressed to him at his office or at his residence. Fees for Notification. Article VIII.—(1) The Local Authority shall pay to every Medical Practitioner a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each notification duly made, signed and transmitted by him under these Regulations if the case occurs in his private practice, and of one shilling if the case occurs in his practice as medical officer of any public body or institution. (2) The Local Authority shall pay to every Certified Midwife a fee of one shilling for each notification duly made, signed and transmitted by her under these Regulations. (3) Every fee shall be paid as soon as practicable after the end of the quarter during which the notification was sent, and the Local Authority shall not require before payment an account of fees claimed under these Regulations. (4) The said fees shall in each case be deemed to cover all expenses, including the cost of transmission. Duties of Medical Officers of Health. Article IX.—The duties assigned to the Medical Officer of Health by the Sanitary Officers (London) Order, 1891, or the Sanitary Officers (Outside London) Order, 1910, as the case may be, shall be deemed to extend to and to include all action by the Medical Officer of Health in the execution of these Regulations. Notification not required in certain eases. Article X.—Nothing in these Regulations shall be deemed to require a notification to be transmitted to a Medical Officer of Health in respect of the child of an inmate of any building, ship, vessel, boat, tent, van, shed or similar structure belonging to His Majesty the King. Short Title. Article XI.—These Regulatious may be cited as The Public Health ''(Ophthalmia Neonatorum) Regulations, 1914.