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THE MIDWIVES ACTS.
DELEGATION OF POWERS BY MIDDLESEX COUNTY
COUNCIL.
The Hendon Borough Council took over the administration
of the Midwives Acts from the Middlesex County Council
on 1st April, 1937, when one of the assistant medical officers
was appointed medical supervisor of midwives. No lay supervisor
is employed.
APPOINTMENT OF MUNICIPAL MIDWIVES.
On 1st April, 1937, there was one municipal midwife in
the service of the Hendon Borough Council. On 1st August,
1938, five midwives commenced duty as whole-time servants
of the Council for domiciliary midwifery and maternity nursing.
Of these two were state-certified midwives who had
previously been in private practice in the Borough. The other
three, who were appointed from posts under other local
authorities and nursing associations, were state-registered
nurses as well as state-certified midwives.
AGREEMENT WITH WATLING DISTRICT NURSING
ASSOCIATION UNDER SECTION 1 OF THE 1936 ACT.
Arrangements were also concluded between the Hendon
Borough Council and the Watling District Nursing Association
whereby the latter undertook responsibility for the midwifery
and maternity services in a defined area of the northwest
part of the Borough. At the same time the Watling
District Nursing Association remained free to carry on
midwifery and maternity nursing outside the Hendon Borough
area. Under these arrangements three midwives are employed
by the Watling District Nursing Association in midwifery and
maternity nursing in the Borough. They are all state- registered
nurses, state-certified midwives and members of the
Queen's Institute of District Nursing. One is recognised by
the Central Midwives Board as an approved teacher of pupilmidwives.