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and shall take all necessary steps to exclude from the establishment
a customer or any other person who has committed such
an act in the establishment. Such licensed person shall not
employ or permit or suffer to be in or upon the establishment
any person who is of known immoral character, and shall
cause all persons in his employ engaged in the establishment
to be decently and properly attired, and he shall not permit
or suffer the door of any room or place in the establishment
for the time being in use for the giving of massage or special
treatment to be locked during the period that the patient is
therein."
But the Byelaws do not prescribe the technical qualifications to be
possessed by persons administering any of the forms of special
treatment, which include :—(a) massage, manicure or chiropody :
(b) radiant heat, light, electric vapour or baths for therapeutic
treatment, or (c) other similar treatment.
Inasmuch as most of the establishments had been licensed
previously by the Essex County Council, I have not recommended
you to refuse to licence any person or premises as long as your
Byelaws were complied with. Under Sec. 58 of the Act the Council
may refuse to grant or renew a licence in respect of any establishment
in which massage or special treatment is or may be administered
by any person who does not possess " such technical qualifications
as may be reasonably necessary," but there has been laid
down no standard by which the many and varied types of qualification
could be judged.
Since 1928 the British Medical Association has drawn attention
to the risks to which the public are exposed by the use of special
forms of treatment by untrained and unqualified persons. Accordingly
the British Medical Association—in conjunction with the
Society of Apothecaries, the Chartered Society of Massage and
Medical Gymnastics, the Society of Radiographers, the Association
of Dispensing Opticians, and the Chiropody Group Council—
has instituted and formed the Board of Registration of Medical
Auxiliaries (Incorporated 1936). This Board prescribes not only
the course of training, but also the examination standard to be
possessed by candidates for approved certificates and diplomas,
and publishes the official National Register of Medical Auxiliary
Services containing the names, addresses and particular qualifications
of persons holding Approved Qualifications in medical
auxiliary work.