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And whereas the Council of each of the Boroughs (which Councils are in
this order together referred to as "the Borough Councils"), being a council
who have established a maternity and child welfare committee and employ a
medical officer of health who, by the terms of his appointment, is restricted
from engaging in private practice, have under section 02 of the Local Government
Act, 1929, applied to the Minister of Health to be made the local supervising
authority under the Midwives Acts ;
And whereas the Minister has consulted with the County Council and has
not been requested by them to hold a local inquiry:
And whereas the Minister is satisfied that each of the Borough Councils
is in a position to discharge the whole of the functions of a local supervising
authority under the Midwives Acts :
NOW THEREFORE the Minister of Health in the exercise of his powers
in that behalf, hereby orders as follows:—
1. Each of the Borough Councils shall become the local supervising
authority under the Midwives Acts for the Borough in place of the County
Council.
2. (1) The expenses of each of the Borough Councils under the Midwives
Acts shall be defrayed out of the general rate fund of the Borough.
(2) The expenses of the County Council under the Midwives Acts shall be
defrayed as expenses for special county purposes from contribution to which the
Boroughs are exempt.
Provided that those expenses may, if the County Council think fit, be
defrayed as expenses for general county purposes subject to the condition that
the County Council shall pay to each of the Borough Councils the amount raised
by the County Council in the Borough in respect thereof.
3. This order may be cited as the Bford and Leyton (Supervision of Midwives)
Order, 1930, and shall come into operation on the first day of October,
1930.
Given under the Official Seal of the Minister of Health, this Sixteenth day
of September, in the year One thousand, nine hundred and thirty.
A. B. MACLACHLAN,
Assistant Secretary, Ministry of Health.
Dr. A. T. Worthington was appointed by the Council as
Inspector of Midwives. All midwives resident and practising in
the Ilford district are visited every quarter by the Inspector of
Midwives, for the purpose of inspecting their register of cases and
maternity outfits.
Visits are also paid to midwives arising out of any cases of
infectious disease, or where the midwife is likely to be a source of
infection, from her practice.