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SECTION 5
GENERAL
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR MASSAGE AND SPECIAL TREATMENT.
There are 24 establishments registered in the Borough.
In addition four exemptions were granted in respect of
establishments run by members of the Chartered Society
of Physiotherapists.
One application for a licence was refused on the
grounds that the applicant did not possess the technical
qualifications required by the Council. An appeal to the
Ealing Magistrates Court against this decision was dismissed
but subsequent appeal to the Middlesex Quarter
Sessions was allowed and the Council was instructed to
register this applicant.
On the 1st July, 1961, an Order brought into operation
certain provisions of the Professions Supplementary to
Medicine Act, 1960.
The Act provides for the establishment of Boards to
promote a high standard of professional education and
conduct for Chiropodists, Dietitians, Medical Laboratory
Technicians, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists,
Radiographers and Remedial Gymnasts. These Boards will
have the function of maintaining a Register of those who
have attended courses of training approved by the Board,
or in the case of existing practitioners those who are
considered suitably qualified by reason of practical
experience before the appointed day. Registered persons
will be entitled to use the title of State Registered
Chiropodist etc. A Council for Professions Supplementary
to Medicine is to co-ordinate and supervise the activities
of the Boards.
The provisions of the Act, which were brought into
operation during the year were the establishment of this
Council and of the Boards for the various professions.
Ealing has long endeavoured to ensure that the qualifications
of Chiropodists in private practice in the
Borough are as high as those who are employed by the
County Council in its clinics and by hospitals in the
Borough under the National Health Service Act. It does
not seem reasonable, in my opinion, that persons having
chiropody from private chiropodists should be receiving
it from a person whose qualifications are not sufficient
to enable him to get employment in the National Health
Service.