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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
London County Council 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]
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| Description | Registration of the blind | Training of the blind | Total | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m. | f. | m. | F. | ||
| (1) Applicants who were examined and were certified as blind | 376 | 533 | 36 | 22 | 967 |
| (2) Acceptance of certificates issued by hospital and private doctors | 43 | 42 | — | — | 85 |
| (3) Acceptance of certificates issued by hospital and private doctors stating applicants were not certifiable as blind | — | 3 | — | — | 3 |
| (4) Applicants who were examined and not certified as blind | 216 | 302 | 24 | 1 | £6 |
| (5) Found blind but unfit for training | — | — | 3* | 1* | 4* |
| (6) Previously certified as blind and found fit for training | — | — | 21 | 11 | 32 |
| (7) Previously certified as blind and found unfit for training | — | — | 3 | 7 | 10 |
| Total | 635 | 880 | 87 | 55 | 1,657 |
| Total for 1936 | 681 | 1,042 | 74 | 43 | 1,840 |
Blind
persons
* Included in (1) above.
Midwives Acts, 1902 to 1936, Nursing Homes Registration and Maternity and Child
Welfare Contribution Schemes
The Midwives Acts, 1902-1936, and the Rules of the Central Midwives Board
provide for:—
(a) Prevention of the practice of midwifery by unauthorised persons.
(b) Training of midwives. (The Council's scheme of training includes,
apart from the full training provided in certain of the hospitals,
(i) lectures to pupil midwives of London on the Rules of the Board,
etc., and on venereal diseases to certain of them;
(ii) post-certificate lectures to certified midwives ,
(iii) grants for special instruction of midwives and midwife-teachers.)
(c) Supervision of the practice of midwives.
(d) Suspension of midwives from practice on grounds of the possibility
of spreading infection, and compensation for loss of practice resulting from
such suspension.
(e) Payment of fees to doctors called by midwives to attend patients in
cases of abnormality or emergency.
(/) Payment of proportion of the annual deficit incurred by the Central
Midwives Board.
(g) Appointment of midwives under the Act of 1936.
(h) Arrangements with voluntary organisations for the employment by
them of domiciliary midwives.
(i) Fixation of fees to be paid by patients for attendance of midwives
employed by local authorities under the Act of 1936.
(j) Compensation to midwives ceasing or required to cease practice.
(k) Prohibition of unqualified persons acting as maternity nurses for gain.
Section I of the Midwives Act, 1936, lays upon the local supervisory authorities
under the Midwives Act, 1902, the duty of providing a domiciliary service of midwives.
In London this duty devolves upon the Council.
Midwives
Acts
Domiciliary
service of
midwives