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The accounts should be sent in quarterly, made up to the
usual quarter days.
Yours faithfully,
Fkedk. Wm. Alexander,
Medical Officer of Health.
To Medical Practitioner.
[N.B.—Poor Law District Medical Officers must still notify
Poor Law patients, and forward their claims for fee3 as hitherto
under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, on the
forms supplied by the Guardians.]
Each medical practitioner was also supplied with a book of forms of
notification under Schedule A of the regulations, in addition to which
the following footnote had been added to the form :—
Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911.
Notification by Medical Practitioners.
Article IV. (1) Subject as provided in Articles X., XI. and
XII. of these regulations every medical practitioner attending on
or called in to visit any person shall, within 48 hours after first
becoming aware that such person is suffering from pulmonary
tuberculosis, complete, sign and transmit a notification of the case
in the form shown in the Schedule A to these regulations to the
Medical Officer of Health for the area within which the place of
residence of the person is situate :
Provided that a medical practitioner shall not be required
under these regulations to notify any case of pulmonary tuberculosis
which has already, to his knowledge, under these regulations or
under the Poor Law Regulations or under the hospital regulations,
been notified to the Medical Officer of Health for the area within
which the place of residence of the patient is situate.
[N.B.—Poor Law District Medical Officers must still notify
Poor Law patients and forward their claims for fees as hitherto