[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Poplar, Metropolitan Borough].

  • Poplar (London, England). Metropolitan Borough.
Date:
[1912]
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    34 The accounts should be sent in quarterly, made up to the usual quarter days. Yours faithfully, Fkedk. Wm. Alexander, Medical Officer of Health. To Medical Practitioner. [N.B.—Poor Law District Medical Officers must still notify Poor Law patients, and forward their claims for fee3 as hitherto under the Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1908, on the forms supplied by the Guardians.] Each medical practitioner was also supplied with a book of forms of notification under Schedule A of the regulations, in addition to which the following footnote had been added to the form :— Public Health (Tuberculosis) Regulations, 1911. Notification by Medical Practitioners. Article IV. (1) Subject as provided in Articles X., XI. and XII. of these regulations every medical practitioner attending on or called in to visit any person shall, within 48 hours after first becoming aware that such person is suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis, complete, sign and transmit a notification of the case in the form shown in the Schedule A to these regulations to the Medical Officer of Health for the area within which the place of residence of the person is situate : Provided that a medical practitioner shall not be required under these regulations to notify any case of pulmonary tuberculosis which has already, to his knowledge, under these regulations or under the Poor Law Regulations or under the hospital regulations, been notified to the Medical Officer of Health for the area within which the place of residence of the patient is situate. [N.B.—Poor Law District Medical Officers must still notify Poor Law patients and forward their claims for fees as hitherto