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All the forms are to be supplied by the Local Sanitary Authorities to
all medical practitioners resident or practising in the District and to the
Medical Officers of Institutions, poor law or otherwise and School Medical
Inspectors.
Article V states that the notification is to be sent to the M.O.H. of
the District (by penny post or delivered sealed) within which the residence
of the person at the date of the notification is situated (carbon copy optional).
Except as regards in-patients at Institutions, when it shall be sent to the
M.O.H. of the patient's own locality, Hospital Officers will in future send
notifications direct and not through the M.O.H. of the area in which the
hospital is situate, as they did under the Hospital Regulations of March, 1911.
Article VI. states that the School Medical Inspector must notify,
whether he knows the child has been previously notified or not—but only
once; but he now only notifies weekly and to the M.O.H. of the area in which
the home of the child is situated.
Fees. Accounts are not expected from the practitioners, but the Local
Sanitary Authority is to settle up every quarter. School Medical
Inspectors and Superintendents of Sanitoria receive no fees for this
work. Why not? Neither do officers of the tubercular dispensaries.
Factory Surgeons, etc., are added to those Officers of certain Institutions
who are not required to notify, but Superintendents of Lunatic
Asylums (not being poor-law governed) are now classed as "Hospitals" and
must notify.
The County M.O.H. Article XI (3) provides that the local M.O.H.
shall send a weekly statement embodying all the information on the notifications
received during that week.
Expenses of Local M.O.H. Article XI (4) states that any expenses
incurred by him in carrying out this article shall be defrayed by his Local
Sanitary Authority.
NOTE.— Why are not the expenses he incurs in other respects to be repaid
him? In large rural areas, the expense incurred must be a considerable reduction
of his salary which was fixed before these regulations were issued.
Penalties for default in complying with these regulations, are
those expressed in the Public Health Act, 1896.
THE PUBLIC HEALTH (MILK AND CREAM)
REGULATIONS, 1912.
Made by the Local Government Board under the Public Health (Regulations
as to Food) Act, 1907.