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County of London (Measles and Whooping Cough) Regulations, 1938.
These Regulations came into operation on the 1st October, 1938, and have the effect
of making the provisions of Sections 192 and 193 of the Public Health (London) Act, 1936,
applicable to Measles and Whooping Cough subject to certain modifications.
The present position is as follows:—
Every medical practitioner attending on, or called in to visit, the inmate (in this
section referred to as "the patient") shall forthwith, on becoming aware that the
patient is suffering from measles or whooping cough, as the case may be, send to the
district medical officer of health a certificate stating the full name and the age and sex
of the patient, the full address of the house, and the disease, whether measles or
whooping cough, from which, in the opinion of the medical practitioner, the patient is
suffering, and stating also whether the case occurs in the private practice of the
practitioner or in his practice as a medical officer of a public body or institution; and
where the certificate refers to the inmate of a hospital, it shall specify the place from
which, and the date on which, the patient was brought to the hospital, and shall be
sent to the district medical officer of health for the district in which the said place is
situate :
Provided that this section shall not require any certificate—
(a) where to the knowledge of the medical practitioner a case of measles or
whooping cough as the case may be has occurred in the house and has been
notified within the two months immediately preceding the date on which he
first became aware of the disease in the case he is attending,
(b) where the case is being treated in a hospital for infectious diseases, or
(c) in the case of a person suffering from measles or whooping cough as the case
may be admitted as a patient into a hospital belonging to the County Council,
if at the time of his admission a copy of a certificate under this sub-section to
that effect has been sent by a district medical officer of health to the County
Council as in hereinafter provided.
Under these Regulations the Lambeth and St. Pancras (Measles and German Measles)
Regulations, 1920, are repealed. The effect of the new regulations in this Borough is
accordingly as follows:—
Measles—the position remains unchanged so far as notification by doctors is concerned;
parents and guardians are however no longer required to notify. Whooping Cough
bccomes notifiable. German Measles is no longer notifiable.
Population (Statistics) Act, 1938.
This act, which came into operation on the 1st July, 1938, imposes on Registrars of
Births and Deaths the duly of obtaining certain further particulars on birth, still-birth and
death registration, in addition to those already required for entry in the register. This information
is required for the compilation of statistical information with respect to the social and
civil conditions of the population of Great Britain. Every person registering information
regarding any birth, still-birth, or death is now required to furnish the Registrar with the
following particulars if within his knowledge:—
(1) On registration of birth or still-birth—
(a) the age of the mother;
(b) the date of the marriage;