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Transmission of notifications.
6. A notification to be transmitted to the medical officer of health
in pursuance of these regulations shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope
addressed to that officer and may be transmitted by being delivered to
him 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:
Provided that the requirement herein contained that a notification
shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope shall be deemed to be complied
with if the notification is folded in such a manner that during its
transmission the particulars of the notification cannot be observed.
Fees for notification.
7.—(1) The local authority shall pay to every medical practitioner
a fee of two shillings and sixpence for each notification duly made
signed and transmitted by him under these regulations except in a case
occurring in his practice as a medical officer of any public body or
institution when the fee shall be one shilling.
(2) The said fees shall in each case be deemed to cover all expenses
including the cost of transmission.
Duties of local authority and of medical officer of health.
8.—(1) Upon the receipt of a notification under these regulations
or on becoming aware in any other way of a case or suspected case of
acute rheumatism in the district the medical officer of health or a
person acting under the instructions of the medical officer of health
shall make such inquiries and take such steps as are necessary or desirable
for investigating the source of disease for removing conditions
harmful to the patient and arranging for the treatment of the patient.
(2) Nothing in this section shall be deemed to authorise the local
authority or the medical officer of health or other person as aforesaid
to take any of the steps herein mentioned at any institution other than
one belonging to the local authority except with the consent of the
managers of that institution.
(3) The duties assigned to the medical officer of health by the
Sanitary Officers Order, 1926, shall be deemed to extend to and include
all action by a medical officer of health in the execution of these
regulations.
Notification not required in certain cases.
9. Nothing in these regulations shall be construed as requiring
a notification to be transmitted to a medical officer of health under
these regulations in respect of an inmate of any building ship vessel
boat tent van shed or similar structure belonging to His Majesty the
King whose case falls within the provisions of paragraph (b) of section 5
of the Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1916 (as made
permanent by the Expiring Laws Act, 1925, and as applied to the Royal
Air Force by the Air Force (Application of Enactments) (No. 2) Order,
1918).
Short title.
10. These regulations may be cited as the Ilford (Acute Rheumatism)
Regulations, 1935.
Given under the official seal of the Minister of Health this eighteenth
day of March nineteen hundred and thirty-five.