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Midwives Act, 1951
The Council, as local supervising authority, has the duty to inspect midwives and
maternity nurses practising in its area. These inspections are carried out by four nonmedical
supervisors, who maintain a 24.hour supervision of the Council's domiciliary
midwifery service. They also supervise and inspect the district midwives employed by
hospitals and district nursing associations. They carry out the routine inspections required
by the rules of the Central Midwives Board of all independent midwives and maternity
nurses, investigate all cases of puerperal pyrexia, skin and eye infections, neo.natal
deaths and still.births occurring on the district; arrange, if necessary, for the suspension of
midwives coming into contact with infection, and inspect all medical aid notices issued
by midwives.

Notification
of intention
to practise

As in previous years, two courses of six lectures each were given to midwives working Lectures to
in London, Middlesex and Surrey, who had notified their intention to practise. The mldwivcs
syllabus for 1954 was :
Lecturer Subject
1. Miss Lois E. Beaulah, ' Health Education and the Midwife '
S.R.N., D.N., S.C.M., M.T.D.
Principal of Midwives Teachers' Training
College
2. Dr. Mavis Gunther, ' Breast Feeding and Ante.natal Care '
M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., B.Chir., M.B.
3. Miss Josephine Barnes, ' Recent Advances in the Use of Drugs in
B.M., M.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. Labour '
4. C. W. F. Burnett, Esq. ' Thrombosis'
F.R.C.S., M.D., F.R.C.O.G.
5. E. Robert Rees, Esq., ' Stillbirths and Post.Maturity '
M.D., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., M.R.C.O.G.
6. A. Melvin Ramsay, Esq., ' Infections in Early Infancy '
M.A., M.D.
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