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"(2) The Local Government Board may make regulations
"prescribing the qualification mode of appointment duties salary and
"tenure of office of health visitors appointed under this section and no
"appointment of a health visitor shall be made otherwise than in
"accordance with such regulations.
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And whereas by virtue of Section 3 of the Act the expression
"Sanitary Authority is defined as meaning—
(a) As respects the City of London and so much of the port of London
as established for the purposes of the laws relating to the customs of
the United Kingdom as is within the administrative County of
London the Mayor, and Commonalty and Citizens of the City of
London, acting by the Mayor, Aldermen and Commons of the City
of London in Common Council assembled;
(b) As respect the places known as the Inner Temple and the Middle
Temple respectively the Overseers of those places respectively; and
(c) As respects any Metropolitan Borough (except as to any portion
thereof which may be within the said portion of the port of London)
the Council of the Borough;
NOW THEREFORE, with respect to the qualification, mode
of appointment, duties, salary and tenure of office of every Health
Visitor who may be appointed by a Sanitary Authority in pursuance
of the Act, We, the Local Government Board, hereby make the
following Regulations, that is to say:—
Qualification.
Article 1.— (1) A woman shall be qualified to be appointed a Health
Visitor if she—
(a) is a duly qualified medical practitioner within the meaning of the
Medical Acts; or
(b) is qualified for the appointment of nurse by having undergone, for
three years at least, a course of instruction in the medical and
surgical wards of any hospital or infirmary, being a training school
for nurses, and having a resident physician or house surgeon; or
(c) is certified under the Midwives Act, 1902, or
(d) has, for a period of not less than six months, undergone in a hospital
or infirmary, receiving children as well as adults, and having a
resident physician or house surgeon, a course of instruction