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than one District a separate notification shall be transmitted to the
Medical Officer of Health of each District.
Diagnosis of Tuberculosis.
Article VIII.—For the purposes of these Regulations a
Medical Practitioner shall be deemed to have become aware that
a person is suffering from Tuberculosis when he has arrived at
this conclusion from evidence other than that derived solely from
tuberculin tests applied to that person.
Transmission of Notifications.
Article IX.—A notification to be transmitted to a Medical
Officer of Health in pursuance of these Regulations may be transmitted
by being delivered to that Officer or by being delivered at
his office or residence, or may be sent by prepaid letter post
addressed to him at his office or at his residence. Every notification
shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope addressed to the
Medical Officer of Health.
Remuneration of Medical Practitioners.
Article X.—(i) Every Medical Practitioner described in
column i of the Schedule B. to these Regulations shall be
entitled to receive for each notification duly made, signed and
transmitted by him under Article V. of these Regulations the
fee specified in column 2 of the said Schedule opposite to the
description of the Medical Practitioner in column 1, and for every
notification duly made, signed and transmitted by him under
Article VII. of these Regulations, the fee specified in column 3
of the said Schedule opposite to the description of the Medical
Practitioner in column 1.
(2) As soon as practicable after the end of the quarter during
which the notification was sent to the Local Authority for the
District within which the place of residence or place of destination
of the person notified is situate that Local Authority shall pay the
fee for the same, and a Medical Practitioner shall not be required
for that purpose to submit an account of fees claimed by him
under these Regulations.
(3) The said fees shall in each case be deemed to cover all
expenses, including the cost of transmission.
Duties of Medical Officers of Health.
Article XI.—(1) A Medical Officer of Health, on receipt of a
notification which has been erroneously addressed to him by a
Medical Practitioner, shall forthwith transmit the notification to