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of the City of London in Common Council
assembled, the Council of a Metropolitan Borough,
the Council of a Municipal Borough or other
Urban District, or the Council of a Rural District;
(e) The expression 'District" means the District subject
to the jurisdiction of the Local Authority for
the purposes of the Public Health (London) Act,
1891, or of the Public Health Act, 1875, as the
case may be ;
(f) The expression "Medical Officer of Health" means
Medical Officer of Health of a Local Authority;
(g) The expression " Medical Practitioner " means any
person for the time being registered under the
Medical Acts ;
Commencement of Regulations.
Article II.—These Regulations shall come into operation
on the First day of January, One thousand nine hundred and
sixteen, and shall then and thereafter apply and have effect
throughout England and Wales, and shall *be enforced and
executed by every Local Authority.
Notice of Provisions of Regulations.
Article III.—(1) The Local Authority shall forthwith
cause notice to be given to all Medical Practitioners resident
or practising within the District of the Local Authority of the
duties imposed upon them by these Regulations.
(2) Fourteen days at least before the date on which these
Regulations come into operation, the Local Authority shall
give public notice of the effect of the provisions of the
Regulations by advertisement in some one or more newspapers
circulating within the District and by causing notice thereof
to be affixed to the principal doors of every church and chapel
in the place in which notices are usually fixed, and otherwise
in such manner as the Local Authority think sufficient for
giving notice thereof to all persons interested.
Supply of Forms of Notification.
Article IV.—For the purposes of these Regulations every
Local Authority shall provide and maintain a sufficient supply
of printed copies of the Form set out in the Schedule to these