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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT, 1929.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee considered the Ministry
of Health Memorandum L.GA. 25, which outlined the scheme made by
the Minister of Health under Section 101 (6) of the Local Government
Act, 1929; and (1) Determines, in relation to voluntary associations
providing Maternity and Child Welfare Services, which of those Services
are to be treated as Services in respect of which the London County Council
are to contribute, and which are Services in respect of which the Councils
of Metropolitan Boroughs are to contribute; and (2) provides for the
payment of contributions to those Associations by the several Councils.
In so far as it affects this Borough, it does not take from the Poplar
Borough Council control of the Maternity and Child Welfare work carried
out within the Borough, whether that work is performed through the
Council's own Clinics or by the Royal College of St. Katharine. The
amount of annual contribution for the next three years which shall be paid
by the Borough Council to the Royal College of St. Katharine, according
to the second schedule of the scheme, will be £4,442.
The only comment raised with the Ministry of Health referred to
Ministry grants which had been received by a certain District Nursing
Association. The Committee were informed that this Society was
federated to the Central Council for District Nursing in London, and the
grant was paid to the Nursing Society through the Central Council.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF ST. KATHARINE.
In view of the pending changes in the grants system occasioned by
the Local Government Act, the Council were asked for their observations
regarding a proposal of the Royal College of St. Katharine to establish
an additional Post-Natal Clinic. This proposal was to establish a weekly
Clinic in place of an existing fortnightly Clinic.
The Council, upon the recommendation of the Medical Officer of
Health, informed the Ministry that the proposed extra Clinic should be
approved, and this was sanctioned by the Minister of Health.