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addresses and qualifications of persons holding Approved Qualifications
in medical auxiliary work.
In March, 1939, in order to safeguard against the exploitation
of specialised forms of medical auxiliary work by persons of inadequate
training, I recommended that licences be granted only to
persons possessing technical qualifications recognised and approved
by the Board of Registration of Medical Auxiliaries; and your
Council instructed the Town Clerk to draft a Byelaw giving effect
to these suggestions. The draft Byelaw was subsequently approved
by your Council, and thereafter the statutory notice of the Council's
intention to frame the Byelaw was duly given. As no objection
to the Council's intention was received, the Byelaw was adopted
by the Council and subsequently confirmed by the Secretary of
State for Home Affairs in December, 1940.
Leyton Council Byelaw prescribing Technical Qualifications:—
"No person shall administer massage or special treatment
at any establishment within the Borough of Leyton, licensed
under Part IV of the Essex County Council Act, 1933, unless
such person possesses appropriate qualifications in Medical
Auxiliary work approved by the Board of Registration of
Medical Auxiliaries as evidenced by the entry of that person's
name in the National Register of Medical Auxiliary Services.
Provided that this Byelaw shall not apply to any establishment
licensed at the date of confirmation of this Byelaw until the
expiration of two years from such date of confirmation."
Practice in Other Areas.
Although the power to make Byelaws prescribing technical
qualifications is common to all Authorities possessing powers of
control over these establishments, Leyton Corporation was the
first and only Authority in the country to make a Byelaw prescribing
technical qualifications.
Board of Registration of Medical Auxiliaries
The Board consider that certain safeguards are essential in
the public interest:—
(1) Definition of the field of Chiropody.
(2) Agreement as to required standards of education and
ethics.