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All the above, except wash-houses, are to be self-supporting, as a charge
will be made to users."
Midwives (No. 2) Bill [H.L.J
[As amended on Report.]
A Bill [as amended on report] intituled an Act to amend the Midwives
Act, 1902. The Lord President (E. Beauchamp).
Memorandum.
"This Bill is for the most part founded upon the Report of the
Departmental Committee appointed to consider the working of the
Midwives Act, 1902 (1909, Cd. 4822), but departs from the recommendations
of that Committee in one or two details."
"The effect of the reconstitution of the Central Midwives Board is to
increase the number of the Board from 9 to 13 members, representation
being given to the following bodies, who were previously unrepresented:"
(1) The Local Government Board;
(2) The Association of Municipal Corporations ;
(3) The Society of Medical Officers of Health ;
(4) The British Medical Association.
"The member appointed by the last-named Association must be a
medical practitioner. No special qualification is prescribed in the case
of the members appointed by the other new bodies."
"In addition to this increase in numbers, the qualifications of the
members appointed by the Incorporated Midwives Institute and the Royal
British Nurses Association have been altered. In the future the members
appointed by these bodies must be certified midwives. At present the
member appointed by the Incorporated Midwives Institute must be a
medical practitioner, whilst with respect to the member appointed by the
Royal British Nurses Association no special qualifications are required."
The attention of the Public Health and Housing Committee was
called to the provisions of Section 17 of the Midwives (No. 2) Bill, introduced
into the House of Lords by the Lord President of the Council.
The section provides that where a medical practitioner has been
summoned upon the advice of a certified midwife attending a woman in
childbirth, to render assistance in case of emergency, he shall be entitled