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(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;
(h) The expression "Certified Midwife " means a woman certified under
the Midwives Act, 1902 ;
(i) The expression ''Ophthalmia Neonatorum " means a purulent discharge
from the eyes of an infant commencing within twenty-one days from
the date of its birth.
Commencement of Regulations.
Article II.—These Regulations shall come into operation on the First day of
April, One thousand nine hundred and fourteen, and shall then and thereafter
apply and have effect throughout England and Wales, and shall be enforced and
executed by every Local Authority.
Supply of Forms of Notification.
Article III.—For the purpose 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 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 Form to every
certified midwife resident or practising within the District of the Local Authority.
Notice of Provisions of Regulations.
Article IV.—The Local Authority shall forthwith cause notice to be given to
all Medical Practitioners and to all Certified Midwives resident or practising
within the District of the Local Authority of the duties imposed upon them by
these Regulations.
Notification by Medical Prartitioners.
Article V.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations every Medical
Practitioner, on first becoming aware that a child upon whom he is in professional
attendance is suffering from Ophthalmia Neonatorum, shall forthwith make and
sign a notification of the case in the Form prescribed for the purpose of certificates
under Section 3 of the Infectious Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, at the same
time stating in writing, either on the form or on a separate sheet attached to the
form, the date of the 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, and shall transmit the notification and statsment aforesaid to the Medical
Officer of Health for the Distric t 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 :
Provided that a Medical Practitioner shall not be required to notify a case of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum under these Regulations in any of the following cases;
that is to say,—
(а) If the case is notifiable or has been notified under the Infectious
Disease (Notification) Act, 1889, Section 55 of the Public Health
(London) Act, 1891, or under the provisions of any Local Act or Order
made thereunder; or
(b) If the case has been notified by a Certified Midwife as herein-after
provided.
(2) Every Medical Practitioner who transmits to a Medical Officer of Health
a notification of a case of Ophthalmia Neonatorum under the Infectious Disease
(Notification) Act, 1889, Section 55 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, or