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of salaries which are comparable with those applicable to
health visitors employed in the same district, together with
appropriate allowances for travelling expenses, and that their
contributions to voluntary organisations will be sufficient to
enable those organisations to pay adequate salaries to all
the midwives they employ."
All Health Visitors appointed since 1928 must possess the
following qualifications:—
(а) State Registered Nurse (general-trained).
(b) State Certified Midwife (Certificate of C.M.B.).
(c) New Health Visitor's Certificate of Ministry of Health.
The remuneration of your Health Visitors is—
(1) Salary £200 to £300.
(2) Uniform allowance—£5.
It is suggested that the salary scale for State Certified Midwives
who are also State Registered Nurses should be the same as that of
your Health Visitors (£200 by £15 to £300), and that a deduction
of £25 per annum be made in the commencing and maximum salary
rates of State Certified Midwives who are not State Registered
Nurses. Uniform, travelling and telephone facilities, equipment,
drugs and dressings should be provided.
Details of the terms and conditions of service could be framed
and submitted for your approval at a later date.
With regard to the amount of grant payable to the Essex
County Nursing Association, you will no doubt consider that the
amount should be such as to enable the Association to provide
adequate salaries and allowances to the midwives provided for
domiciliary service in the area.
Section 6 of the Act provides for the prohibition—with certain
specified exceptions—of maternity nursing by unqualified persons
in any area by order of the Minister as soon as he is satisfied that
the local authority has secured the provision of an adequate service
of salaried midwives in the area.