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(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 I.—(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
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 childbirth, 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,