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is payable, and that such service is being used by a reasonable number of those persons
for whom it is provided;
2.— That no reduction or alteration of such service is made without the consent
of the Borough Council;
3.—That such service, and any premises in which it is carried on, are open to
inspection at all reasonable times by an officer of the Borough Council duly authorised
by the Council, and by any officer of the Ministry of Health appointed for that purpose
by the Minister;
4.—That the association sends to the Borough Council in each year a copy of the
annual report of the association on the maternity and child welfare work of the
previous year, together with a statement of the accounts of the association for that
year relating to such work and a copy of the auditor's certificate thereon, and furnishes
the Borough Council from time to time with such other information relating to the
maternity and child welfare services provided by the association and the expenditure
thereon as may reasonably be required.
BOROUGH COUNCIL CONTRIBUTIONS.
The Local Government Act, 1929, which came into force on April 1st, 1930, authorised
the Minister of Health to make a scheme determining, in relation to voluntary associations
providing maternity and child welfare services, to which of them the County Council, and to
which the Metropolitan Borough Councils are to contribute. The scheme provided for the
payment during the fixed grant period to the various voluntary associations of contributions of
the amounts specified in the scheme. Each of the annual contributions was to be paid
either in a single sum before the 30th of September in each year, or in equal quarterly
or half-yearly instalments.
The associations in respect of which the County Council make contributions are
principally those providing residential accommodation. The Royal Free Hospital receives
grant from the L.C.C. and for this reason it has not been the practice to include figures relating
to the Welfare Centre at this Hospital in the return which the Borough Council makes to
the Ministry.
The scheme came into operation on April 1st, 1930, and continued in force until
31st March, 1933. An amended scheme was then prepared by the Minister of Health, coming
into force on April 1st, 1933, and continuing until March 31st, 1937. A new scheme in
respect of the period terminating March, 1942, came into operation on 1st April, 1937.