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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
3. To make an annual registration fee of 1s. for all certified midwives.
4. To empower the Board to suspend (with compensation if necessary) any midwife
during the time proceedings against her are pending.
5. To require the Supervising Authority to supply gratis to midwives all forms they are
required to send and to prepay the postage on such forms.
5. To empower the local supervising authority to aid by grant or otherwise the training
of midwives.
6. To give power of entry to inspect lying-in homes where a midwife or an uncertified
woman is believed to be practising.
7. To provide that medical practitioners called in at the instance of midwives in pursuance
of the rules of the Central Midwives Board shall be entitled, subject to regulations to be framed
by the Local Government Board, to recover fees from the Boards of Guardians.