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including subjects relating to personal hygiene, and holds the
certificate of the Royal Sanitary Institute for Health Visitors and
School Nurses, or the certificate or diploma of the National Health
Society, or of any other body which may from time to time be
approved by us; or
(e) has, in the service of a Sanitary Authority, or of the Council of a
Borough or of another Urban District or of any other Public Body
or Authority in England or Wales, discharged duties which, in Our
opinion, are similar to those described in the Act or prescribed by
these Regulations in relation to the office of Health Visitor, and
produces such evidence as, in Our opinion, suffices to prove her
competency.
(2) Where, in Our opinion, the circumstances so require, the Sanitary
Authority may, with Our consent, and subject to such conditions as We
impose, appoint to the office of Health Visitor a woman who, though not
possessing any such qualification as is prescribed by sub-division (1) of this
Article, has a competent knowledge and experience of the theory and practice
of nurture, of the care and management of young children, of attendance on
women in and immediately after child-birth, and of nursing attendance in
cases of sickness or other mental and bodily infirmity.
Appointment.
Article II.—(1) The Sanitary Authority who propose to make an
appointment to the office of Health Visitor shall, after their selection of the
woman whom they propose to appoint, furnish Us in writing with a statement
comprising the name of the woman selected, the particulars of her qualification,
a description of the district for which it is proposed that she shall be
appointed, the amount of salary proposed to be assigned to the office, and
such other details as, in relation to the proposed appointment, are from time
to time required by Us, and, except where We, by reason of special circumstances
in any particular case, confirm an appointment made without Our
previous approval of the selection of the woman to be appointed, no appointment
shall be valid until the selection of the woman to be appointed has
been approved by Us.
(2) The Sanitary Authority who propose to make an appointment to the
office of Health Visitor, and who have ascertained that no woman seeking, or
proposed for, the appointment, possesses any such qualification as is prescribed
by sub-division (1) of Article I. of these Regulations shall, before their
selection of the woman whom they propose to appoint, cause to be inserted
once at least in one or more of the newspapers circulating in the metropolitan
borough or other area for which the Sanitary Authority act, and so that a
period of not less than seven days shall elapse after the date of the insertion,
or of the first insertion, as the case may be, and before the day fixed for the