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(2) The Interpretation Act, 1889, shall apply to the interpretation
of these regulations as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of
Parliament.
3. The local authority shall enforce and execute these Regulations
in their district and shall forthwith cause notice to be given to all
medical j ractitioners resident or practising within the district of the
duties thereby imposed upon them.
4. For the purposes of these Regulations the local authority shall
provide and maintain a sufficient supply of printed copies of the appropriate
forms set out in (he Schedules to these Regulations, and shall
as soon as practicable after these Regulations come into operation, and
afterwards from time to time when application is made to them,
furnish printed copies of the said forms to every medical practitioner
resident or practising within the district.
5. The medical officer of health of the authority shall forward a copy
of every notification received by him under Part II or Part III of
these Regulations to the medical officer of health of the administrative
county within which the district is situate within 24 hours after the
receipt of the notification.
6. Where a woman is an inmate of any building, ship, vessel, boat,
tent, van, shed, or similar structure belonging to His Majesty the King,
nothing in these Regulations shall be construed as requiring a notification
to be transmitted to a medical officer of Health in respect of that
woman in any case not falling within the provisions of paragraph (b)
of Section 5 of the Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act,
1916 (as made permanent bv the Expiring Laws Act, 1925, and
as applied to the Royal Air Force by the Air Force (Application of
Enactments) (No. 2) Order, 1918.
PART II.
Puerperal Fever.
7. The form of certificate contained in Part I of the First Schedule
to these Regulations shall be the form for the purpose of any notification
of puerperal fever to be given by a medical practitioner to the
medical officer of health of a municipal borough or of any other urban
district or of a rural district or of a port sanitary district (other than
the London port sanitary district) under Sub section (1) (b) of Section 3
of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, and the form of
certificate contained in Part II of the said Schedule shall be the form
for the purpose of any notification of puerperal fever to be given by a
njedical practitioner to the medical officer of health of the City of
Loudon, of the London port sanitary district or of a metropolitan
borough under Sub-section (1) (6) of Section 55 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891.
8. In so far as they relate to puerperal fever the Public Health
^Notification of Infectious Disease) Regulations, 1918, are hereby
revoked but without prejudice to any right, obligation or liability
acquired, accrued or incurred thereunder.
PART m.
Puerperal Pyrexia.
9. In this Part of these Regulations the expression " puerperal
pyrexia " means any febrile condition (other than a condition which
is required to be notified as puerperal fever under the Infectious Disease
(Notification) Acts) occurring in a woman within 21 days after childbirth
or miscarriage >n which a temperature of 100.4° Fahrenheit
(38° Centigrade) or more has been sustained during a period of 24 houre
or has recurred during that period.
10. Subject to the provisions of this Part of these Regulations every
medical practitioner, on first becoming aware that a woman upon whom
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